[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] image: Implement IH_TYPE_KERNEL_ANYLOAD

Stephen Warren swarren at nvidia.com
Thu Nov 10 18:43:07 CET 2011


On 11/10/2011 10:01 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 11/10/2011 02:58 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> [Description of IH_TYPE_KERNEL_ANYLOAD]
>>>
>>> just a silly question, but didn't we agree on cmd_bootz? Or is this
>>> unrelated ?
>>
>> bootz did seem to be agreed upon initially, but Wolfgang's most recent
>> response suggested that a new IH_TYPE would be acceptable, and it's a
>> lot less code to implement. At a later point, bootz could still be
>> implemented if desired.
> 
> Well DAMN. I think I'll probably implement bootz, because it seems superior 
> solution which I DID NEED for one of my devices for a while now (if noone is 
> working on it already). I can't say what ETA will be on that, maybe next week, 
> maybe two weeks.

Out of curiosity, why doesn't this bootm feature work for you?
Admittedly you still need to wrap the zImage inside a uImage, but I
don't think that's insurmountable? Aside from that, doesn't it work
exactly like a bootz command would?

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