[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 2/9] tools: mkimage: add support for gpimage format

[Gerhard Sittig]

On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 22:45 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
> Dear Murali Karicheri,
> 
> In message <1396631815-5735-3-git-send-email-m-karicheri2 at ti.com> you wrote:
> > This patch add support for gpimage format as a preparatory
> > patch for porting u-boot for keystone2 devices and is
> > based on omapimage format. It re-uses gph header to store the
> > size and loadaddr as done in omapimage.c
> ...
> > @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ static const table_entry_t uimage_type[] = {
> >  	{	IH_TYPE_FILESYSTEM, "filesystem", "Filesystem Image",	},
> >  	{	IH_TYPE_FIRMWARE,   "firmware",	  "Firmware",		},
> >  	{	IH_TYPE_FLATDT,     "flat_dt",    "Flat Device Tree",	},
> > +	{	IH_TYPE_GPIMAGE,    "gpimage",    "TI Keystone SPL Image",},
> >  	{	IH_TYPE_KERNEL,	    "kernel",	  "Kernel Image",	},
> >  	{	IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD, "kernel_noload",  "Kernel Image (no loading done)", },
> >  	{	IH_TYPE_KWBIMAGE,   "kwbimage",   "Kirkwood Boot Image",},
> 
> For binary compatibility with existing images you can only appen, but
> never insert into uimage_type[].

the next hunk (declaration of the IH_TYPE_GPIMAGE enum value) did
the append, using a number past all previously used numbers,
keeping compatibility with existing binaries

the above hunk just references the newly introduced enum, and
keeps the list of images sorted alphabetically -- so I think this
is OK


virtually yours
Gerhard Sittig
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