Dear Stephen,
In message 51267E0A.3060204@wwwdotorg.org you wrote:
so. Just consider the typical "diskless" system that boots over the network, using DHCP + TFTP, where the server will provide a single file only.
I use TFTP routinely to boot my boards, and load separate zImage and DTB files from the server without issue, using the exact same filenames as when I load them from a /boot directory on eMMC or SD.
You may do this in a development environment; I do the same routinely here. But there are users out there who commission large installations like that; they simply do not want to have multiple files for each system (and not even for each configuration).
And besides, there's always some script, whether it's a boot.scr file or built into the U-Boot environment.
Not really - especially not when booting using Falcon mode.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk