>>>>> "Grant" == Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Hi, Grant> Personally, I don't get any benefit out of the new image format, Grant> so I haven't spent any time looking at it. However, I'm Grant> concerned about the drift back towards a different image per Grant> target when the move over the last 4 years has been towards Grant> multiplatform kernel images. I certainly don't want to Grant> encourage embedding the device tree blob into the kernel image, Grant> and I'm not very interested in merging code to do that into the Grant> kernel tree. If someone really needs to do that for their Grant> particular target, it is certainly easy enough for them to weld Grant> in the .dtb after the fact before transferring the image to the Grant> target, but I want that mode to be the exception, not the rule. I understand the advantages of being able to compile multiplatform kernels - But for the typical embedded device, having the device tree together with the kernel makes stuff a lot simpler when upgrading because of the version depencies of the dts. That's also why I submitted the (nacked) multifile uimage support some time ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ppc64.devel/46825/ The fitimage stuff is the logical continuation of that. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
