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

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Mon Apr 6 21:30:49 CEST 2009


On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:24:39AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Ronen Shitrit,
> 
> In message <309002C0DA137042828828FC53D7A9347E13537FE0 at IL-MB01.marvell.com> you wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure we are on the same page here, the Kirkwood has an
> > internal bootROM which can only boot an image if this image is
> > wrapped by a specific header.
> 
> What a stupid (read: broken) hardware design.
> 
> There are tons of standards for image formats, and even more commonly
> used formats I would not dare to call standard; but this processor
> has to invent yet another one?

The same could be said about u-boot requiring its own image format (ELF
and raw binary images can't be passed a device tree or bd_t, AFAICT).

-Scott


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