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On Saturday 11 April 2009 17:08:31 David Miller wrote:
> This patch allows a platform to specify the image file output
> format, it also adds the --strip-unneeded option to the objcopy
> invocation as well.

IIRC, --strip-unneeded was dangerous.

> I've left the i386-pc.mk portion of this patch out of the posting,
> but rest assured I will check that part in once this gets an ACK :-)

I don't like "IMG_FMT". How about "FORMAT"? If too ambiguous, "IMAGE_FORMAT". 
I prefer not to use uncommon abbrevs.

Regards,
Okuji