[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/11] Change some boards to use zImage in default environment

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Tue Feb 11 15:16:51 CET 2014


Hi Marek,

On 11/02/2014 14:15, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 11:14:44 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> Dear Otavio Salvador,
>>
>> In message <1389909486-12880-1-git-send-email-otavio at ossystems.com.br> you 
> wrote:
>>> This patchset does as stated in the subject. It has been build tested
>>
>>> as can be seen below:
>> What is the motivation for this change?  Using zImage is - from the
>> technical point of view - the poorest of the available choices.  If
>> you are not happy with using uImages, then why do you not move forward
>> and use FIT images?
> 
> I see the patchset was applied, but this question was not answered.

I have not seen the question, sorry. Rather patchwork did not show me
the right thread, as it showed me only the comments for Patches 1-11 :-(

Anyway, I think the discussion is a bit away from which is the best
image. IMHO the board maintainer can decide which is the more suitable
default environment he needs, and in this case, he decided for a "raw
image" like zimage. We can argument which is the best one as on the ARM
ML, but I have no other arguments to block such kind of patches.

I am missing Simon's patches to move the "default" environment outside
of the configuration file: I can imagine that using different ".env" can
solve part of the problems we have with CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS, that
is become more and more complex, and can help to fine tuning the default
environment.

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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