[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] image: Support relative-addresses property in FIT images

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Oct 6 21:20:26 CEST 2011


Dear Stephen Warren,

In message <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF173A2C7568 at HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> you wrote:
>
> Wolfgang, does this change look like a reasonable approach?

Yes, looks good to me - with the nitpick of a bit more explicit
comment.  See previous message.

> What are your thoughts on the legacy format; should we ignore it? We
> could probably steal some bit in one of the fields for this flag, although
> technically that would be a change to the format, with potential
> compatibility issues.

I would really like to see this supported as well - so far only a
minority of users use FIT images.

I suggest we define a new image type (say, IH_TYPE_KERNEL_REL) for
this purpose.  This would probably cause the least conflicts.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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