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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/11] Change some boards to use zImage in default environment
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:56:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201401171356.28459.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140116221444.8361E38060C@gemini.denx.de>

On Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 11:14:44 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Otavio Salvador,
> 
> In message <1389909486-12880-1-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> you 
wrote:
> > This patchset does as stated in the subject. It has been build tested
> 
> > as can be seen below:
> What is the motivation for this change?  Using zImage is - from the
> technical point of view - the poorest of the available choices.  If
> you are not happy with using uImages, then why do you not move forward
> and use FIT images?

I am with you here. zImage is not a good format, since it's inflexible and not 
protected by anything (no checksum etc) at all. For deployment, it's even more 
poor choice.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-17 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-16 21:57 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/11] Change some boards to use zImage in default environment Otavio Salvador
2014-01-16 21:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 01/11] cgtqmx6eval: Set default environment to use zImage Otavio Salvador
2014-01-16 21:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 02/11] hummingboard: " Otavio Salvador
2014-01-16 21:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 03/11] mx23evk: " Otavio Salvador
2014-01-16 21:57 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 04/11] mx28evk: " Otavio Salvador
2014-01-16 21:58 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 05/11] mx51evk: " Otavio Salvador
2014-01-16 21:58 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 06/11] mx53loco: " Otavio Salvador
2014-01-16 21:58 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 07/11] mx6qarm2: " Otavio Salvador
2014-01-16 21:58 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 08/11] mx6sabre_common: " Otavio Salvador
2014-01-16 21:58 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 09/11] mx6slevk: " Otavio Salvador
2014-01-16 21:58 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 10/11] udoo: " Otavio Salvador
2014-01-16 21:58 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 11/11] vf610twr: " Otavio Salvador
2014-01-16 22:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/11] Change some boards to use zImage in default environment Wolfgang Denk
2014-01-17 12:56   ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2014-02-11 13:15   ` Marek Vasut
2014-02-11 14:16     ` Stefano Babic
2014-02-12  7:49       ` Marek Vasut
2014-02-12 13:11         ` Stefano Babic
2014-02-12 14:08           ` Marek Vasut
2014-02-12 17:43           ` Simon Glass
2014-02-11 10:06 ` Stefano Babic

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