[U-Boot-Users] In kernel mkimage

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 13:15:53 CEST 2007


On 7/17/07, Clemens Koller <clemens.koller at anagramm.de> wrote:
> Josh Boyer schrieb:
> > 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.
>
> Don't duplicate code, if it ain't necessary. Improve documentation
> that  make <foo>  tells what's missing and how to fix it.

I still argue that having 'make <foo>' tell someone they need to go
download u-boot and build it for a platform just to get that tool is a
bit bizarre.

josh




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