On 13:50 Wed 07 Mar , Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > > > On 17:30 Tue 06 Mar , Stephen Warren wrote: > > > This allows the user to use U-Boot's mkimage's -T kernel_noload option > > > if their arch Kconfig allows it, and they desire. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > The next patch enables this new CONFIG_ALLOW_ option for ARM. I assume > > > that some other architectures will also be able to enable it, but I'm > > > not familiar enough with any to know which. > > I'm going to repeat. I don't think any impromevent here. > > You know what? I agree with you... on a conceptual level only though. > > In reality, some people are are just too used to it, either for > emotional reasons or simply because that's what was there before so they > simply perpetuated it without thinking further, or whatever. REmoving > that support would just upset a lot of people. And frankly we have > better things to do than starting a flamewar over this. My concern is this new feature is available on new version of U-Boot only and people that does not have it and built the uImage are going to ask the question. Why bla bla bla.... Where people are supposed to RTFM I do do not want to have the answer this and manage this. > > So the next best thing is to make this u-Boot stuff well contained in a > common place and make sure it doesn't spread incoherently over multiple > architecture's directories and makefiles. This way the u-Boot cruft > won't be the ARM maintainer, or the PPC maintainer, or the SPARC > maintainer, or any other architecture maintainer's business, but the > responsibility of those who do care about it without affecting anyone > else. Ditto here People does not read the doc they as lazy and I do not want to manage this. > > > And the uImage format here is called the legacy format where now U-Boot > > support a new format based on DT format. > > > > Will you plan to add it too? > > Why not if someone cares? At least this will be done only > once, centrally, without having to involve architecture maintainers. So you manage this because I will not answer one e-mail that ask for help Because for my point of view RTFM or boot the zImage Best Regards, J. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
