[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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