[U-Boot-Users] In kernel mkimage

Behan Webster behanw at websterwood.com
Tue Jul 17 23:37:08 CEST 2007


Josh Boyer wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Behan Webster <behanw at websterwood.com> wrote:
>> If it is both easy to build mkimage by itself, and can be distributed as
>> a package for the various distros, then most of this issue goes away.
>
> True.  The one thing that might pop up is that distros might object to
> 'mkimage' being too generic.  Though I think the chance of that being
> a large issue is small.  We should definitely try and make it
> standalone in some fashion.
This is a good point.  By rights it should be uboot-mkimage or something
like that.

However, stating that the kernel code depends on mkimage being named
mkimage is a good argument.

-- 
Behan Webster
behanw at websterwood.com





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