[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/3] image: Make image_get_fdt work like image_get_{ram_disk, kernel}

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Nov 5 23:24:16 CET 2011


Dear Marek Vasut,

In message <201111052306.23919.marek.vasut at gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> Well you put out quite a good reason in the other mail for uImage. Now the 
> problem basically is the negotiation between linux and uboot as of who has to 
> wrap the image into what envelope. I don't see this happening actually, which 
> sucks.

Look at the PPC code.  There we have a plain simple uImage make target
in Linux, and everything is fine.  In ARM, we only have a target which
gives us a pre-wrapped image, i. e. which always includes the kernel's
wrapper and decompressor.  How can we change this?  Patches are not
accepted.

> > What exactly _is_ the problem of uImage?
> 
> The exact problem here is it loads the kernel to fixed address.

This has been addressed, and patches are queued.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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