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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] kernel: Pull uImage generation into separate class
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On Monday, October 20, 2014 at 12:08:57 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> > Pull the uImage image format generation from kernel.bbclass into
> > a separate kernel-uimage.bbclass. The recipes which now need to
> > generate an uImage will have to inherit kernel-uimage instead of
> > kernel class.
> 
> The commit log doesn't tell us why. What's the benefit or functionality we
> gain via the change ?

Ah right. I will be recycling some of those functions later on in the fitImage 
support. Also, it was suggested to me that there should be a separate class for
each image type -- that all the image types should not be in kernel.bbclass .

Does that make sense please?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut