[PATCH 1/7] boot: use a common zImage rule

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Tue Mar 20 14:30:39 EST 2007


On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:58:07PM -0600, Milton Miller wrote:
> Before the plethora of platforms gets any worse, establish a common
> rule to invoke the wrapper for any platform.  Add arguments to
> the rule for initrd, dts, dtb, etc.   Show example usage with initrd.
> 
> For now, uImage and zImage*ps3 are special.  Hopefully ps3 will join
> the party.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm at bga.com>
> --- 
> One reviewer pointed out the explicit exception rule are now seperated
> from the generic rule.  While the rule needs to go after the image-
> assignment, that code could be moved up.

The problem with this patch is that while the wrap command can take a
dts or dtb, there's no way to specify which should be used with each
target.

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