From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:01:26 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] tools: mkimage can read input on /dev/stdin In-Reply-To: <20140927215655.365B9380044@gemini.denx.de> References: <20140927215655.365B9380044@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <201409280001.26383.marex@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 11:56:55 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Hello Wolfgang, > Dear Julien, > > In message you wrote: > > I'm not sure to understand what you mean. In both cases, the file is > > copied. > > > > What is bothering you? > > I asked: > | What is the size and performance impact of the suggested change for > | typical use cases? > > Can you please provide values for the size of the binary and the > execution time? > > It's not really critical, but I'd like to understand the impact of > your changes. You use case is pretty exotic, so it seems a valid > question to me to try to understand what the extended functionality > costs. Won't it be better to focus on the overall concept first and dig in the finer details later ? I think right now, the question is -- do we want to support stdin as a source of payload for mkimage or not at all? Best regards, Marek Vasut