[PATCH v2] bootwrapper: support u-boot multi component images

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Sep 22 17:41:28 EST 2008


Dear Peter Korsgaard,

In message <1221814210-4738-1-git-send-email-jacmet at sunsite.dk> you wrote:
> From: peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk>
> 
> Support uImage.<platform>, which are U-Boot multi component images
> containing a kernel, dtb and possibly an initrd.

NAK.

Please do not add such a patch to mainline.

> +   uImage.%:		U-Boot multi component image. Similar to uImage,
> +			except device tree blob is embedded inside the
> +			image together with the kernel (and potentially
> +			an initrd).

The use of the old multi-file image format in U-Boot  is  deprecated.
It  has  some  severe  limitations,  and we have a much more flexible
solution now.

Please use FIT images instead (see doc/uImage.FIT/*).

Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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