mkimage for ppc

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jun 9 03:07:14 EST 2009


On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:48:58AM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>Sorry, was on vacation. Copying a couple mailing lists...
>
>On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 12:34 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> I am now doing regular build tests on various platforms (kernel only for 
>> now).
>
>That's great! Much appreciated.
>
>> But ppc wants a mkimage and I don't have one to give it.  Where 
>> can I find it?
>
>mkimage is a tool provided by u-boot
>(http://git.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary). IIRC
>people have discussed the need to include a copy in the kernel source in
>the past, but apparently nothing was ever done about it.

The first patch was pushed back on because it didn't solve it for all the
architectures that use mkimage for various builds.  I'd like to get back to
that, but haven't had time yet.

josh


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