Dear Stephen, In message <51475997.2060008@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > Raw zImage /is/ the useful format that should be adopted. This "one size fits all" approch does fit everywhere. There are a number of users (including _big_ commercial ones, with _large_ numebrs of systems in the field) that have simple requirements like: - how can I find out if the image I just loaded to RAM in OK (OK maning some checksum is correct, or some crypto-key could be verified, or ...) ? - how can I find out which version of image is installed on this device in the flash? Can I print something like an ID string, or a build timestamp, etc? etc. etc. zImage may work well in many cases, but there are also many cases where in image format that allows for additional meta-data is mandatory. 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 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- 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
