On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 03:35:34PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 05:46:12AM +1300, Simon Glass wrote: > > Hi Masahiro, > > > > Sure, but that is a separate issue, isn't it? We already support > > various boot targets in arm64 but not one that includes the DTs, so > > far as I can see. The old arm 'uImage' target is pretty out-of-date > > now. > > Does that mean it can be removed? ;) > > I've NAK'd FIT support on 32-bit Arm in the past, and I remain of the > opinion that boot loader specific packaging of the kernel should not > be in the kernel but should be external to it - even more so given the > multi-platform nature of 32-bit Arm kernels. I'll point it out here rather than Simon. As part of https://github.com/open-source-firmware FIT is a standard and not "boot loader specific". And one of the points of a FIT image is that you can easily support multi-platform kernels in a single file (without optimizing things further, at a cost in tens of milliseconds on a Pi 3 anyhow) and with user-controlled security. -- Tom
