[U-Boot] [PATCH] common: fit: Allow U-Boot images to be booted

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mario,

In message <CAN1kZorTfQcVoOz5O5J7-R-T5yTDbrCqDBHgC4gHaMX1sUh3YQ at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> It is, but the problem is that adding a new type, like "ubootimage," or
> something like that, would not be as easy as with the platform-specific image
> types (like, e.g. "rkimage"), which only appear in mkimage, because we'd have
> to account for this new type in common/bootm.c (essentially, add a lot of
> additional "|| images.os.type == IH_TYPE_UBOOT").

There is no need for a new type.  IH_TYPE_FIRMWARE should be used for
this; see also comments around [1]

[1] http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=include/image.h#l228

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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