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

[Kumar Gala]

On Feb 13, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> 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).

What's the term to specify an image wrapped via mkimage?

>> 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.

agreed, I think the only one I don't support right now is multi- 
image.  (however, I'm not sure what an image of type Filesystem  
actually means).

- k