[PATCH] boot: Add LEGACY_IMAGE_FORMAT to DISTRO_DEFAULTS
Tom Rini
trini at konsulko.com
Tue Aug 19 16:57:37 CEST 2025
On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 12:13:31PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 17:51, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > At this time there are still major Linux distributions which by default
> > boot using LEGACY_IMAGE_FORMAT type scripts. Add this option to
> > DISTRO_DEFAULTS to ensure these platforms can still boot.
>
> What is the legacy image format exactly? Does select make it non
> optional, can we use imply or similar here?
In this case "legacy image format" is uImage-style images, rather than
FIT images. And no, we can't imply it because then we'd break Debian
(which doesn't boot on a handful of platforms now which do have
DISTRO_DEFAULTS but don't have this).
--
Tom
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