[U-Boot] what is "legacy image"?
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Sep 15 08:55:01 CEST 2010
Dear =?gbk?B?IkJhaSxjaHVuIiA=?=,
In message <391830493.89.1284520552700.JavaMail.root at bj-mail08.pku.edu.cn> you wrote:
>
> I saw "Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 82000000..." in the boot log.
> So, what and why is "Legacy Image"? and what is not a legacy image?
A "legacy image" is the old image format created as default by the
"mkimage" tool; the new, recommended image format is called "FIT
images" (FIT = flattened image tree); see doc/uImage.FIT/ for more
information.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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