[U-Boot] fit: Enable fitImage by default if OF_LIBFDT is enabled

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sat Jun 9 00:11:59 UTC 2018


On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 04:18:43PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 06/08/2018 01:18 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 12:49:56AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > 
> >> Enable fitImage by default on systems which already use libfdt.
> >> The fitImage has many benefits over zImage and supersedes legacy
> >> uImage, so enable it by default where possible to make it widely
> >> available.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at bootlin.com>
> >> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
> >> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> >> ---
> >> NOTE: And make my life easier, so that every contemporary board I
> >>       look at supports a civilized contemporary boot image format
> >>       and I don't have to mess around to find the right combo of
> >>       zImage or uImage and DTB and the right load addresses and
> >>       keep loading gazilion of files every time I boot a board.
> > 
> > You need to run this through travis or otherwise build the world.  A
> > number of platforms fail due to size constraints and a few others (snow
> > for example) fail for other reasons.  Thanks!
> 
> Lovely, so how do we constrain those ? btw I'd have expected snow to
> have fitImage enabled already ?

Well, I would suggest updating their defconfigs to have the feature
disabled.  snow was failing for some other reason, that I'm still pretty
sure was part of this patch and not some of the others I asked for
changes on.

-- 
Tom
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