[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] image: add support for Android's boot image format

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Sebastian Andrzej Siewior,

In message <1316191879-27214-2-git-send-email-bigeasy at linutronix.de> you wrote:
> This patch adds support for the Android boot-image format. The header
> file is from the Android project and got slightly alterted so the struct +
> its defines are not generic but have something like a namespace. The
> header file is from bootloader/legacy/include/boot/bootimg.h. The header
> parsing has been written from scratch and I looked at
> bootloader/legacy/usbloader/usbloader.c for some details.
> The image contains the physical address (load address) of the kernel and
> ramdisk. This address is considered only for the kernel image.
> The "second image" is currently ignored. I haven't found anything that
> is creating this.

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Are you 100% sure this is a GPLv2+ compatible license??? I don't think
so...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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