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From: plagnioj@jcrosoft.com (Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Kbuild: Implement CONFIG_UIMAGE_KERNEL_NOLOAD
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:08:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307180815.GA27213@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331080238-1524-2-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org>

On 17:30 Tue 06 Mar     , Stephen Warren wrote:
> This allows the user to use U-Boot's mkimage's -T kernel_noload option
> if their arch Kconfig allows it, and they desire.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
> ---
> The next patch enables this new CONFIG_ALLOW_ option for ARM. I assume
> that some other architectures will also be able to enable it, but I'm
> not familiar enough with any to know which.
I'm going to repeat. I don't think any impromevent here.

with no specific kernel load address the uImage for is useless/

And this no the job of the kernel to build a boot loader specific boot image
format.

And the uImage format here is called the legacy format where now U-Boot
support a new format based on DT format.

Will you plan to add it too?

no sorry I don't think it's the right way to go.

On X86 we boot zImage simply. The new uImage option to do not specify the load
address add nothing more than just boot a zImage for kernel point of view.

Further more on server the vendor will use grub mostly (even on ARM) and will
expect to boot a zImage.

Best Regards,,
J.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-07 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-07  0:30 [PATCH 1/3] Kbuild: centralize MKIMAGE and cmd_uimage definitions Stephen Warren
2012-03-07  0:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] Kbuild: Implement CONFIG_UIMAGE_KERNEL_NOLOAD Stephen Warren
2012-03-07  0:52   ` Julian Calaby
2012-03-07  6:52   ` Guan Xuetao
2012-03-07 18:10     ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-07 18:08   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2012-03-07 18:40     ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-07 18:36       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-03-07 19:02         ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-03-07 20:27         ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-07 21:03           ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-03-07 21:30             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-07 22:43               ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-03-07 21:28           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-07 18:50     ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-03-07 19:08       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-03-07 19:31         ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-03-07  0:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: Allow the user to enable UIMAGE_KERNEL_NOLOAD Stephen Warren
2012-03-07  3:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] Kbuild: centralize MKIMAGE and cmd_uimage definitions Mike Frysinger
2012-03-07 17:41   ` Stephen Warren
2012-03-07 18:25     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-07  9:00 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2012-03-07 14:15 ` Josh Boyer
2012-03-07 18:29   ` Stephen Warren

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