[U-Boot] [PATCH] bin_dep.sh Support

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Apr 6 11:33:46 CEST 2009


On Monday 06 April 2009 05:16:02 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> in message Mike wrote:
> > the Blackfin processor too has a custom format (LDR) for booting code. 
> > it's akin to the PHDRs in ELF, plus some additional flag bits to control
> > behavior. but in our world, i wrote external utilities to manage ELF->LDR
> > conversion and so i didnt need a dedicated script in u-boot to do that
> > ugly conversion mojo, just a new Makefile target (u-boot.ldr).
>
> ...which seems to be an acceptable (to both sides) compromise to me.

minus support for embedding the environment into the image ... i have a patch 
that adds an option to tools/envcrc to export the environment as a binary blob 
so that it can be passed to the external utility, but you wouldnt take it 
because you wanted me to fix my hardware instead ;).
-mike
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