On Monday 06 April 2009 05:16:02 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
in message Mike wrote:
the Blackfin processor too has a custom format (LDR) for booting code. it's akin to the PHDRs in ELF, plus some additional flag bits to control behavior. but in our world, i wrote external utilities to manage ELF->LDR conversion and so i didnt need a dedicated script in u-boot to do that ugly conversion mojo, just a new Makefile target (u-boot.ldr).
...which seems to be an acceptable (to both sides) compromise to me.
minus support for embedding the environment into the image ... i have a patch that adds an option to tools/envcrc to export the environment as a binary blob so that it can be passed to the external utility, but you wouldnt take it because you wanted me to fix my hardware instead ;). -mike