[U-Boot-Users] RFC: make new image support mandatory

[Kumar Gala]

On Mar 26, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message  
> <A3CF2817-786F-45C9-92BA-6DF8CE150C85 at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
>>
>>> Can we agree on this?
>>
>> I haven't tried out the CONFIG_FIT stuff yet so some of these  
>> concerns
>> might not be real issues:
>> 1. Are their changes to linux kernel build system to create a
>> FIT .uImage ?
>
> Not yet.
>
>> 2. if "#define CONFIG_FIT 1" can we use an "old" style uImage?
>
> Yes, of course.
>
>> If the answer to 2. is no, I'm concerned about boards that are part  
>> of
>> a family (like Freescale reference boards for PPC) and having two
>> different image formats to deal with.
>
> No, I don't intend to force incompatible changes on innocent users :-)
>
> Ideally, nobody has even to take notice of the new feature - unless
> they run "help" on some of the commands.
>
> But then, they *can* use the new features if they want.

Than I'm all for.

- k