[U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH] mkimage: Add compatibility option for legacy Multi-File images

[Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>]

Hi Thibaut,

> Le lundi 30 ao?t 2010 ? 11:29 +0200, Detlev Zundel a ?crit :
>> Hi Thibaut,
> Hi,
>
>> generally I'm not a fan to include workarounds for bugs which we do not
>> have anymore in mainline U-Boot.
>
> Hm, yeah, I can understand that...
>
>> Isn't there any other alternative for this?
>
> Well, for my use case, we have to workaround this bug.
> We can do that (adding a byte at the end of some files) outside of
> mkimage, but it's really a u-boot thing, so, it could really go in
> there.

If it goes in, can we set a date to remove it again?  Or do we have to
carry it around forever?  If the latter is the case then I'm really not
a big fan of it.  If you can fix the problem up in the "project where it
is a problem", then the fix would better belong there.

Cheers
  Detlev

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