From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bootwrapper: support u-boot multi component images
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:41:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080922074128.A66F22487F@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221814210-4738-1-git-send-email-jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Dear Peter Korsgaard,
In message <1221814210-4738-1-git-send-email-jacmet@sunsite.dk> you wrote:
> From: peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
>
> Support uImage.<platform>, which are U-Boot multi component images
> containing a kernel, dtb and possibly an initrd.
NAK.
Please do not add such a patch to mainline.
> + uImage.%: U-Boot multi component image. Similar to uImage,
> + except device tree blob is embedded inside the
> + image together with the kernel (and potentially
> + an initrd).
The use of the old multi-file image format in U-Boot is deprecated.
It has some severe limitations, and we have a much more flexible
solution now.
Please use FIT images instead (see doc/uImage.FIT/*).
Thanks.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-22 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-19 8:50 [PATCH v2] bootwrapper: support u-boot multi component images Peter Korsgaard
2008-09-19 11:26 ` Gerhard Pircher
2008-09-19 11:31 ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-09-19 13:51 ` Grant Likely
2008-09-22 7:41 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2008-09-22 7:55 ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-09-22 10:49 ` Wolfgang Denk
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