[U-Boot] [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Feb 21 18:37:07 CET 2013


Dear Russell,

In message <20130221134656.GC17852 at n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> you wrote:
>
> > Note that FIT images are relatively old (docs date back to March
> > 2008).  This is more of another effort to try and update what the
> > kernel uses.
> 
> So it's five years old and people haven't been that interested in it so
> far.  That speaks volumes...

Well, your attitude to (not) accept anything like that is well known;
there have been few previews attempts, which have all been rejected in
basicly the same way.

But now the situation has changed - multiplatform support adds a
number of use cases where this feature comes in handy, so it pops up
again.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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