From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 23:38:31 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/3] image: Make image_get_fdt work like image_get_{ram_disk, kernel} In-Reply-To: <20111105222416.3D3D01893014@gemini.denx.de> References: <1320164902-24190-1-git-send-email-swarren@nvidia.com> <201111052306.23919.marek.vasut@gmail.com> <20111105222416.3D3D01893014@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <201111052338.31576.marek.vasut@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de > Dear Marek Vasut, > > In message <201111052306.23919.marek.vasut@gmail.com> you wrote: > > Well you put out quite a good reason in the other mail for uImage. Now > > the problem basically is the negotiation between linux and uboot as of > > who has to wrap the image into what envelope. I don't see this happening > > actually, which sucks. > > Look at the PPC code. There we have a plain simple uImage make target > in Linux, and everything is fine. In ARM, we only have a target which > gives us a pre-wrapped image, i. e. which always includes the kernel's > wrapper and decompressor. How can we change this? Patches are not > accepted. > > > > What exactly _is_ the problem of uImage? > > > > The exact problem here is it loads the kernel to fixed address. > > This has been addressed, and patches are queued. > I went through the previous discussions, sorry for the noise. > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk