From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from xes-mad.com (xes-mad.com [216.165.139.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C2DFB6F14 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:51:26 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] powerpc: Add support for FIT uImages From: Peter Tyser To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org In-Reply-To: <1258577834-26006-1-git-send-email-ptyser@xes-inc.com> References: <1258577834-26006-1-git-send-email-ptyser@xes-inc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:51:21 -0600 Message-ID: <1258581081.8365.5996.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:57 -0600, Peter Tyser wrote: > These patches add support for creating the "new" FIT uImage type > that U-Boot can use. Additional info about FIT images can be > found in the doc/uImage.FIT/ directory of the U-Boot source. > Here's a link to a howto which gives an overview of the format: > http://git.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=doc/uImage.FIT/howto.txt;h=8065e9e1d8d4d65a9b5fe0fce08d3709183d0ee4;hb=HEAD > > I've only added support for PowerPC, but the arm, avr32, blackfin, > and sh arches could use the same framework in theory. The change > is especially useful on PowerPC since it creates 1 FIT uImage that > combines the functionality of an "old" uImage format, a device > tree blob, and possibly a ramdisk. > > Peter Tyser (3): > powerpc: Use scripts/mkuboot.sh instead of 'mkimage' > powerpc: Add support for creating FIT uImages > powerpc: Add support for ram filesystems in FIT uImages > > arch/powerpc/Makefile | 4 +- > arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore | 1 + > arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile | 8 ++- > arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper | 39 ++++++++++-- > scripts/mkits.sh | 144 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 5 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > create mode 100755 scripts/mkits.sh Just realized I missed /Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.txt in this series. I'll wait for feedback and roll the documentation update and any other requested changes into v2. Sorry for the noise, Peter