From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>,
Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@gmail.com>,
linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] partitions/efi: add support for uImage.FIT sub-partitions
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:50:08 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <271114315.250800.1668667808308.JavaMail.zimbra@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y3XN+fDTjHz09qEE@infradead.org>
----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:19:10AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
>> While weirdness is certainly subjective, uImage.FIT is not just a
>> random image format but used by a great majority of headless embedded
>> Linux devices out there. It's the default image format of many of the
>> SDKs distributed by chip vendors such as Allwinner, Marvell, MediaTek,
>> NXP, Qualcomm/Atheros, ...
>
> "Look see, my weird format is used by all these companies building
> crappy SOCs, it is not weird.."
Well, FIT is not something strange invented by SoC companies, it comes from u-boot
and is more or less a de-facto standard.
While I agree that using the block layer for partition parsing is questionable
I think supporting these images in Linux is a worthwhile goal.
Thanks,
//richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-17 6:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-15 21:45 [PATCH v5 0/4] partition parser for U-Boot's uImage.FIT Daniel Golle
2022-11-15 21:45 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] block: add new flag to add partitions read-only Daniel Golle
2022-11-15 21:46 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] block: add partition parser for U-Boot uImage.FIT Daniel Golle
2022-11-15 21:47 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] partitions/efi: add support for uImage.FIT sub-partitions Daniel Golle
2022-11-16 6:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-17 0:19 ` Daniel Golle
2022-11-17 6:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-17 6:50 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2022-11-17 6:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-17 13:59 ` Daniel Golle
2022-11-15 21:47 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] mtd: add option to enable scanning for partitions Daniel Golle
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