[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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