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

[Mario Six]

Hi Wolfgang,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> 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
>

Ah, OK, I thought that IH_TYPE_FIRMWARE should exclusively be used for firmware
updates, like the comment said, not for actually *running* the firmware. In
that case the work is more manageable (there's still some changes needed,
because common/image-fit.c refuses to boot images with firmware type, too).

I'll look into preparing a v2.

Thanks for the help!

Best regards,

Mario