Re: [PATCH 1/3] Kbuild: centralize MKIMAGE and cmd_uimage definitions

Stephen Warren
2012-03-07T18:29:23Z

On 03/07/2012 07:15 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> All ARCHs have the same definition of MKIMAGE. Move it to Makefile.lib
>> to avoid duplication.
>>
>> All ARCHs have similar definitions of cmd_uimage. Place a sufficiently
>> parameterized version in Makefile.lib to avoid duplication.
>>
>> The centralized cmd_uimage definition will allow the future introduction
>> of a centralized Kconfig option to make cmd_uimage use -T kernel_noload
>> rather than -T kernel.
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> Is there a reason you skipped powerpc?

grepping the powerpc makefiles showed no hits on MKIMAGE, mkimage or
cmd_uimage.

Looking a little harder now, this is all inside the shell script
arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper. I'm not really sure quite how to unify that
shell script with the makefile use of mkimage. Do you have any ideas?