[U-Boot] Call for participation in the U-Boot Mini Summit 2014

Tom Rini
2014-09-05T19:21:57Z

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:08:13PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On 5 September 2014 11:53, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 07:30:35PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >> > It's easier to work with than fitImage.
> >>
> >> In which way?
> >
> > In most developer work flows at least zImage then uImage then fitImage
> > are the easiest to work with, in that order, for ARM. For ARM64 Image
> > in the next release will probably release uImage as the easiet to work
> > with.
> >
> > fitImage seems useful in a lot of deployment scenarios. Having to craft
> > up a good skeleton device tree in most cases is an annoying to overcome
> > barrier for a development workflow.
>
> I wonder if we could easily address that by building in the
> functionality to mkimage? For the common case of a kernel, FDT and
> ramdisk I don't see why anyone needs to write a .its file. It's just
> boilerplate.

Maybe. Or at least add in an example that doesn't do any reloc to it
AND make it clear that's what it does. Looking over my normally lost
boilerplate its file, it's kernel_noload that doesn't relocate things
around to the load/entry point so a generic example could be made.

--
Tom
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