Hello Wolfgang,
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Dear Otavio Salvador,
In message 1388771903-8730-3-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br you wrote:
... There is noreason to continue using uImage for default environment.
Sorry, but this "There is no reason to continue using uImage" is a phrase which challenges my protest.
Actually switching from uImage to zImage is a serious deterioration. uImages have a number of properties that are extremely useful, and especially in embedded environments; none of these are available for zImages. The only problem is that uImage support has never been correctly implemented in the ARM Linux kernel, and that fixes have never been accepted (for various [non-technical] reasons).
Switching to zImage means to take the path of least resistance, and chose the worst of the possible solutions, technically.
It would make much more sense to push forward and use FIT images, instead.
I understand FIT has many benefits against zImage but Wandboard default should be as easy and trivial for use as possible; I can rework the commit log one more time. See if below version is better:
wandboard: Set default environment to use zImage
Change the default environment to use zImage instead of uImage, this requires changes to the default environment to load a file named zImage instead of uImage, and to use the 'bootz' command instead of 'bootm' when booting the kernel.
The zImage works for FSL Linux's kernel fork versions 3.0.35, 3.10.9, and 3.10.17; this also works fine for mainline kernels.
Please reply and I send a new revision of the patch.