[RFC] New target 'cuImage' - compatibility uImage

Matthew McClintock msm at freescale.com
Fri Aug 4 02:02:14 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 23:56 +0800, Li Yang wrote:
> 
> If U-boot supports uncompressed kernel image in uImage, I think it
> will be better to use this scheme:
> 
> u-boot header + wrapper + FDT + compressed kernel image
> 
> As kernel image will be uncompressed to its loading address directly.
> While in your proposal, it needs to be moved one more time.
> 

This is an option. But, I do not see a reason why you would not still
opt to compress everything. Especially since it is already working.
Comments anyone?

-Matthew




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