From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:54992 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753852Ab3BURhQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:37:16 -0500 From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit 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> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:37:07 +0100 Message-Id: <20130221173707.76A7D200671@gemini.denx.de> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Tom Rini , "Fernandes, Joel A" , Grant Likely , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, tony@atomide.com, Grant Likely , u-boot@lists.denx.de, Joel A Fernandes , Linux OMAP List , Linux ARM Kernel List 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@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