[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/3] image: Make image_get_fdt work like image_get_{ram_disk, kernel}

Wolfgang Denk
2011-11-05T22:24:16Z

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.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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