[U-Boot] [ARM]: File type for u-boot elf file

[Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>]

Le 24/02/2011 14:26, Detlev Zundel a ?crit :
> Hi sughosh,
>
>> hi Albert,
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Albert ARIBAUD<albert.aribaud@free.fr>wrote:
>>
>>> Le 24/02/2011 12:08, sughosh ganu a ?crit :
>>>
>>>     I suspect the utility freaks out because it thinks the ELF cannot be
>>>>     made into a binary like it would previously, but actually the binary
>>>>     generation process did not change when we refactored the relocation
>>>>     -- maybe the utility would work on our relocatable ELFs with just
>>>>     the check for ELF type bypassed.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, even i think that would be the case, but i guess that would call
>>>> for changes in the utility. Perhaps someone from TI can look into this.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Isn't there some official support channel?
>>>
>>
>> I am not sure on this one. Hawkboard was a open source project, so hoping
>> someone from TI on the list can take a look into this.
>>
>> Sandeep, if you can point me to the person/list where this can be taken up,
>> i can follow up. Thanks.
>
> We should really strive to get the functionality of the utility into
> U-Boot itself.  Our mkimage already supports "custom wrappers" for i.MX
> and Kirkwood (cf. tools/{imximage,kwbimage}.c), so why not extend it for
> the AIS stuff?

 From the general search I did while responding in this thread, AIS is 
not documented publically -- but I may have missed it.

> Dependencies on external utilities is always a bad thing and breaks
> easily as was just demonstrated.

Agreed -- although actually, its the dependency on *binary, closed* 
external utilities that causes the issue.

> Cheers
>    Detlev

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.