On 2012-05-22, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
In message jpgbbm$1hk$1@dough.gmane.org Grant Edwards wrote:
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somebody told me that if I was using U-Boot, I could build the zImage and rootfs separately and then combine them into a single uImage file for distribution.
The (deprecated) old style way (using legacy image format) is called "multi-file images".
The modern, recommended way to do things like this is using FIT images.
See the respective documentation.
Thanks!
All our build/update infrastcture expects the uImage legacy image format, so I'm going to stick with the multi-file "uImage" format for now.
FWIW, I couldn't find any documentation for FIT images (it's not mentioned in in either FAQs, Table of Contents, or Index), and various google searches didn't find anything except old mailing list messages. Having the manual chopped up into hundreds of separate web pages makes impossible to search when looking for something. It would be very nice if the Manual was available as a single page.