On 08:58 Wed 29 Feb , Stephen Warren wrote: > Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote at Wednesday, February 29, 2012 5:30 AM: > > On 17:03 Tue 28 Feb , Stephen Warren wrote: > > > uImage files typically encode a single absolute load and entry address. > > > This is inconvenient when attempting to share that uImage across multiple > > > SoCs with different physical RAM addresses. Recent versions of mkimage > > > implement a "kernel_noload" image type which encodes no absolute load > > > address, and a relative entry address. This works well for uImage-wrapped > > > ARM zImages, since they are relocatable. > > > > > > This is enabled by commit b9b50e89d317c58becd0e2d7fac2e21e3a81dd0a > > > "image: Implement IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD" in U-Boot. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > I assume I should put this into the ARM patch tracker if it's OK? > > > > Again a new option for uImage no why not just boot the zImage > > > > in this case the uImage is useless > > U-Boot doesn't support zImage at present. > > A patch was posted to support it at least for ARM, but needed a little > work before it could be committed. Sorry I see no advantage to have the uImage build by the kernel anymore as we have a relocatable zImage I'll even drop its support Best Regards, J. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
