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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 10:11:25 -0700
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 3/4] tegra: config: Enable FIT and device
 tree for all boards
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On 11/23/2014 09:12 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Modern kernels require a device tree to boot.

True.

 > Enable FIT support to permit
> booting these images, rather than just legacy images.

I don't understand this? Modern kernels boot perfectly well without FIT 
support. U-Boot supports the kernel's standard separate DTB and zImage 
file formats just fine.

To be honest, I'd strongly prefer not to enable support for 
non-universal (bootloader-specific) formats such as FIT.

> This allows booting of Chrome OS kernels, among other things.

This might be a reasonable justification to support FIT. However, it'd 
be best to enable FIT support only on boards that are actually supported 
by ChromeOS, so as not to pollute other boards' configuration.