On 09/16/2012 05:38 PM, Kevin Cernekee wrote: > 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? > Ralf should I change the patch to activate BOOT_RAW on all builds like Kevin suggested? I just came up with the small change in these patches to make the bcm47xx SoC boot again without any other patches. Hauke
