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

Stephen Warren swarren at nvidia.com
Thu Oct 6 21:59:11 CEST 2011


Wolfgang Denk wrote at Thursday, October 06, 2011 1:20 PM:
> 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.

OK. Wouldn't we also need e.g. IH_TYPE_STANDALONE_REL, IH_TYPE_RAMDISK_REL
and perhaps other too?

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