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

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 23:38:31 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.
> 

I went through the previous discussions, sorry for the noise.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk


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