From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wd@denx.de (Wolfgang Denk) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:18:48 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images In-Reply-To: References: <20130221103705.GB17852@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <51261F38.2030902@ti.com> <20130221134656.GC17852@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <51262A7A.8040103@ti.com> <20130221182724.GA14329@obsidianresearch.com> <20130221211444.GB20114@obsidianresearch.com> Message-ID: <20130221231848.880DE200552@gemini.denx.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Dear Nicolas, In message you wrote: > > No it is not. FIT is about bundling a multi-platform kernel with a > bunch of DTBs together in a single file. I don't think you need that Actually this is neither the only, nor even the primary purpose of FIT images; these have a much wider scope of usage scenarios. > The DT is meant to describe hardware. As far as I know, the hardware I > own seems to be rather static and stable, and unlike software there is > no way I can change it (soldering irons don't count). There is other hardware available (for example FPGA based) where this does not apply. 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 GUIs are virtually useless. Learn tools. They're configurable, scriptable, automatable, cron-able, interoperable, etc. We don't need no brain-dead winslurping monolithic claptrap. -- Tom Christiansen in 371140df at csnews