[PATCH 17/19] bootwrapper: compatibility layer for old U-Boots (a.k.a. cuImage, cuboot)

Mark A. Greer mgreer at mvista.com
Thu Mar 15 13:15:33 EST 2007


On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:05:38PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:02:34PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > Err... won't the initramfs image go in the same place as the initrd
> > image, not as part of the vmlinux.
> 
> Although, speaking of that.  Long term, I think it would be a good
> idea for the wrapper script to base the zImage's link address on the
> size of the vmlinux.

That's an interesing idea.  I'm sure there will be sizes that will bring
the load address into conflict with what the fw needs to do the actual
download though.  Nothing is ever easy, is it? :)

Mark



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