[U-Boot-Users] In kernel mkimage

[Josh Boyer]

Hi All,

As part of my on-going 4xx work in the arch/powerpc kernel, I've been
toying with the idea of creating an in-kernel copy of the mkimage
tool, similar to how we have a mktree tool for the older OpenBIOS
firmware.

The main reason is that there isn't a stand-alone mkimage tool.
Currently, it's only available after you build u-boot itself for a
particular platform.  Ideally, you would be able to do 'make
tools/mkimage' and have it build, but that doesn't seem to be the
case.  And since it's a bit odd to require developers to build u-boot
before building a kernel I thought having an in-kernel copy would be
more efficient.

The tool itself doesn't get frequent updates, so keeping it in sync
shouldn't be a large issue.  However, I'd like to hear what other
people think of the idea before going off and doing that.

josh