[U-Boot] [RFC] Extend 'bootm' to support Linux kernel generated images

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:11:14PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On 24 May 2014 06:21, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 03:57:34PM -1000, Simon Glass wrote:
[snip]
> > > It surprises me the lengths to which people are going to try to
> > > shoehorn .dtbs, compression, multiple dtbs, multi-arch etc. into the
> > > kenel zImage format. The decompression header is ugly, plus it is
> > > slower than doing these things in U-Boot.
> >
> > Well, with arm64 the kernel is just getting out of the business, hence
> > booti (or however we add Image support) and not do the zImage dance.
> 
> Does this mean a clean Image with no add-ons?

Yes, Image only, and different from arch/arm/boot/Image.  Leaving the
details of how to find/place the device tree and initrd up to the
bootloader.

-- 
Tom
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