[U-Boot] [PATCH] tools: mkimage can read input on /dev/stdin

[Marek Vasut]

On Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 11:56:55 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

Hello Wolfgang,

> Dear Julien,
> 
> In message <CADF714bLG21jobjTnbUbWqsyj3xbzL+Fb+WBfcrq8YH4-
ugm5Q at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> > I'm not sure to understand what you mean. In both cases, the file is
> > copied.
> > 
> > What is bothering you?
> 
> I asked:
> | What is the size and performance impact of the suggested change for
> | typical use cases?
> 
> Can you please provide values for the size of the binary and the
> execution time?
> 
> It's not really critical, but I'd like to understand the impact of
> your changes.  You use case is pretty exotic, so it seems a valid
> question to me to try to understand what the extended functionality
> costs.

Won't it be better to focus on the overall concept first and dig in the finer 
details later ?

I think right now, the question is -- do we want to support stdin as a source of 
payload for mkimage or not at all?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut