On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Rather than adding new paths to arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper, I would >> rather see a new script used for generating FIT image that isn't >> complicated by all the current wrapper cruft. Also, the Makefile rule >> doesn't need to depend on $(wrapperbits) which means faster build >> times when only building uImages. >> >> Bonus points if you also convert the uImage target to use the new >> script; but I'm not demanding that you do that yet. > > I think if this is handles in a separate script, the legacy uImage > support must be handled in this new script, too. Otherwise it would be > too difficult to understanmd the relation of the two image formats. I'm fine with this. But if I receive a patch that does one and not the other, I'll probably still merge it. :-) >> Finally, you need to add documentation about the new target to >> Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.txt. > > Let's keep in mind that the uImage formats (both the old legacy and > the new FIT format) are inherently architecture independent. We want > to use this same mechanism for example on ARM, and on other > architectures as well. That's fine, but Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.txt happens to also be the place that documents how the boot image creation on arch/powerpc works. I'm happy for the text about uImage and fitImage to make reference to a different Documentation file or URL. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. -- 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
