[U-Boot] [PATCH] BOOT: Add RAW ramdisk support to bootz
    Marek Vasut 
    marek.vasut at gmail.com
       
    Fri Mar 23 09:36:51 CET 2012
    
    
  
Dear Wolfgang Denk,
> Dear Marek Vasut,
> 
> In message <201203221745.16226.marek.vasut at gmail.com> you wrote:
> > > > Dear Wolfgang Denk, are we OK with applying this and bootz patch
> > > > please? Can we get it into .04 release please?
> > > 
> > > "this" - which patch version exactly are you referring to?
> > 
> > Revision V6.
> 
> Could you please be a bit more specific?  Like posting a link to the
> respective message on gmane, or in patchwork?
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/146848/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/147440/
> 
> The Subject: of this message is "BOOT: Add RAW ramdisk support to
> bootz", but I have not seen any V6 for this patch.  Ican only guess
> that you might be referring to [PATCH V6] BOOT: Add "bootz" command to
> boot Linux zImage on ARM - but I'd rather be sure.
Yes, see above two links please.
> 
> > I believe this patch is quite important to the linux-arm people and early
> > adoption of this stuff would be very beneficial. Also, there are other
> > patches that were applied after the MW was closed. Finally, this patch
> > started long before .04 release cycle.
> 
> Where/when?
If you mean the patch, here:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/125318/
If you talk about accepting patches way past MW, almost all the time, at least 
in the ARM stuffs. And this works OK so far I believe, I see no breakage. Also, 
we didn't reach the RC phase yet either. Lastly, this change is not intrusive in 
any way.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
    
    
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