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Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/3] powerpc: Add support for ram
From: jacmet () sunsite ! dk (Peter Korsgaard)
Date: 2009-12-31 8:01:22
Message-ID: 87skartvvx.fsf () macbook ! be ! 48ers ! dk
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>>>>> "Grant" == Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> writes:
Hi,
Grant> Personally, I don't get any benefit out of the new image format,
Grant> so I haven't spent any time looking at it. However, I'm
Grant> concerned about the drift back towards a different image per
Grant> target when the move over the last 4 years has been towards
Grant> multiplatform kernel images. I certainly don't want to
Grant> encourage embedding the device tree blob into the kernel image,
Grant> and I'm not very interested in merging code to do that into the
Grant> kernel tree. If someone really needs to do that for their
Grant> particular target, it is certainly easy enough for them to weld
Grant> in the .dtb after the fact before transferring the image to the
Grant> target, but I want that mode to be the exception, not the rule.
I understand the advantages of being able to compile multiplatform
kernels - But for the typical embedded device, having the device tree
together with the kernel makes stuff a lot simpler when upgrading
because of the version depencies of the dts.
That's also why I submitted the (nacked) multifile uimage support some
time ago:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ppc64.devel/46825/
The fitimage stuff is the logical continuation of that.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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