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

Loïc Minier lool at dooz.org
Tue Nov 8 15:24:47 CET 2011


On Sat, Nov 05, 2011, Marek Vasut wrote:
> this patchset is good and all, but can we not also introduce cmd_zload
> to load zImages? Wolfgang, today's ARM hardware will really benefit
> from that, uImage holds us back a lot these days. Other option is to
> extend cmd_bootm() to load zImages.

 Other architectures like x86 and sh seem to use zboot, perhaps we
 should stick to zboot for all architectures rather than introducing
 bootm -z or bootz?  AFAIK the file formats are slightly different per
 architecture, but the U-Boot cmdline usage would be the same.

-- 
Loïc Minier


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