On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All the boot loaders I have seen are booting the kernel in raw mode by > default. CFE seams to support elf kernel images too, but the default Nitpick: "seems" > case is raw for the devices I know of. Select this option to make the > kernel boot on most of the devices with the default options. CONFIG_BOOT_RAW only adds about 8 bytes to the kernel image. Since early 2008 it's just been implemented as a single jump instruction, and it's harmless on platforms that don't need it. Do you think it is worthwhile to delete the Kconfig option, and enable BOOT_RAW behavior on all builds?