Dear Stephen, In message <51267E0A.3060204@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > > so. Just consider the typical "diskless" system that boots over the > > network, using DHCP + TFTP, where the server will provide a single > > file only. > > I use TFTP routinely to boot my boards, and load separate zImage and DTB > files from the server without issue, using the exact same filenames as > when I load them from a /boot directory on eMMC or SD. You may do this in a development environment; I do the same routinely here. But there are users out there who commission large installations like that; they simply do not want to have multiple files for each system (and not even for each configuration). > And besides, there's always some script, whether it's a boot.scr file or > built into the U-Boot environment. Not really - especially not when booting using Falcon mode. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx If you can't beat it or corrupt it, you pretend it was your idea in the first place. - Terry Pratchett, _Guards! Guards!_ -- 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
