Re: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 09/21] AT91SAM9261EK support

In message 01a901c8b02a$57de2370$060514ac@atmel.com you wrote:

The bitmap is also a binary file, so difficult to handle with patches. Have you any idea how to solve this?

Use git. Git handles binary blobs just fine.

==> Is this not for the custodians to sort out as a special case?

It is not a special case. A binary image is just another file type which can be processed using git tools.

    Can't you just send a binary as an attachement and have this

included in the mainstream?

    An alternative would be to convert the bitmap to
    a non-binary file which can be used as data to a utility
    generating the binary during the build

None of this is necessary.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk