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From:   Pintu Agarwal <pintu.ping@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:39:46 +0530
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Subject: Re: MTD: How to get actual image size from MTD partition
To:     Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 21:56, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:

> >> My requirement:
> >> To find the checksum of a real image in runtime which is flashed in an
> >> MTD partition.
> >
> > Try using the dm-verity module for ensuring that a block device really
> > is properly signed before mounting it.  That's what it was designed for
> > and is independent of the block device type.
>
> MTDs are not block devices. :-)
>
Is it possible to use dm-verity with squashfs ?
We are using squashfs for our rootfs which is an MTD block /dev/mtdblock44