[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Add 'imload' command

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Feb 14 01:37:52 CET 2008


In message <3192541E-1FBD-4638-A317-3A25F316CD8C at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> 
> > Why just uImage?
> 
> what other image formats do we support?  I assume we'll extend it for  
> the new format style once that exists.

uImage means "OS Kernel Image" (IH_TYPE_KERNEL in include/image.h).

> I feel like I'm missing something here.  I agree that IH_TYPE_MULTI  
> needs to be supported, but I don't see why the code doesn't work for  
> the bulk of the other IH_TYPE_* variants.  It appears the only  
> compression types we support today ore NONE, GZIP, and BZIP2.
> 
> So what am I missing?

I think it makes sense  to  allow  support  for  Standalone  Program,
RAMDisk,  Multi-File, Firmware, Script, Filesystem, and FDT images as
well.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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