Hi All,
As part of my on-going 4xx work in the arch/powerpc kernel, I've been toying with the idea of creating an in-kernel copy of the mkimage tool, similar to how we have a mktree tool for the older OpenBIOS firmware.
The main reason is that there isn't a stand-alone mkimage tool. Currently, it's only available after you build u-boot itself for a particular platform. Ideally, you would be able to do 'make tools/mkimage' and have it build, but that doesn't seem to be the case. And since it's a bit odd to require developers to build u-boot before building a kernel I thought having an in-kernel copy would be more efficient.
The tool itself doesn't get frequent updates, so keeping it in sync shouldn't be a large issue. However, I'd like to hear what other people think of the idea before going off and doing that.
josh