[U-Boot] [PATCH] mkimage: Fix 'Unknown OMAP image type - 5'

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Dirk,

Le 05/08/2011 20:42, Dirk Behme a écrit :
> From: Dirk Behme<dirk.behme at googlemail.com>
>
> Using mkimage with e.g.
>
> tools/mkimage -A arm -T firmware -O u-boot -d u-boot.bin foo.img
>
> gives a warning
>
> "Unknown OMAP image type - 5"
>
> while it seems that the image itself is created successfully.
>
> This does come from the patch "mkimage: Add OMAP boot image support".
>
> Reordering the init_xx_image_type() sequence does make this
> message go away.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme<dirk.behme at googlemail.com>
> CC: John Rigby<john.rigby at linaro.org>
> CC: Aneesh V<aneesh at ti.com>
> CC: Sandeep Paulraj<s-paulraj at ti.com>
>
> ---
>
> This is reproducable with the recent mainline mkimage where the
> patch "mkimage: Add OMAP boot image support" is applied:
>
> http://git.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=3decb14abe76d244ba98fd158ef95f89e7e37d70
>
>   tools/mkimage.c |    4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Index: u-boot.git/tools/mkimage.c
> ===================================================================
> --- u-boot.git.orig/tools/mkimage.c
> +++ u-boot.git/tools/mkimage.c
> @@ -156,12 +156,12 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
>   	init_imx_image_type ();
>   	/* Init FIT image generation/list support */
>   	init_fit_image_type ();
> -	/* Init TI OMAP Boot image generation/list support */
> -	init_omap_image_type();
>   	/* Init Default image generation/list support */
>   	init_default_image_type ();
>   	/* Init Davinci UBL support */
>   	init_ubl_image_type();
> +	/* Init TI OMAP Boot image generation/list support */
> +	init_omap_image_type();
>
>   	params.cmdname = *argv;
>   	params.addr = params.ep = 0;
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Any idea why reordering fixes the issue? Seems to me like init functions 
are not / should not be dependent on order, so the "fix" seems fragile 
to me, at least as long as we cannot add a good explanation.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.