From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936339AbXLTQWo (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:22:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764249AbXLTQWV (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:22:21 -0500 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:53132 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763962AbXLTQWU (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:22:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:16:43 -0600 From: Josh Boyer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: paulus@samba.org Subject: [RFC] Merge mkimage tool Message-ID: <20071220101643.48b427ef@zod.rchland.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The following patches merge the mkimage tool into the kernel. This utility is used by several arches to create a uImage file suitable for booting with U-Boot. As it stands today, a mkuboot.sh script is called, which searches for the mkimage utility installed on the host system. This is slightly suboptimal as it prevents things like automated rebuilds of certain platforms on those architectures, particularly powerpc. This is currently based on the mkimage version found in U-Boot 1.3.1. Comments, flames, suggestions, insults, monetary donations welcome. Please CC me on replies, as I'm not subscribed to lkml with this address. josh