From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wd@denx.de (Wolfgang Denk) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:37:07 +0100 Subject: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images In-Reply-To: <20130221134656.GC17852@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20130221103705.GB17852@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <51261F38.2030902@ti.com> <20130221134656.GC17852@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <20130221173707.76A7D200671@gemini.denx.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Dear Russell, In message <20130221134656.GC17852@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> you wrote: > > > Note that FIT images are relatively old (docs date back to March > > 2008). This is more of another effort to try and update what the > > kernel uses. > > So it's five years old and people haven't been that interested in it so > far. That speaks volumes... Well, your attitude to (not) accept anything like that is well known; there have been few previews attempts, which have all been rejected in basicly the same way. But now the situation has changed - multiplatform support adds a number of use cases where this feature comes in handy, so it pops up again. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de The aim of science is not to open the door to everlasting wisdom but to set a limit on everlasting error. - Bertolt Brecht