[U-Boot-Users] Special u-boot format for Kernels

Hi Wolfgang !

When I did my adaption of armboot to my XScale boot, I decided to boot a zImage directly from memory. However, the standard way for u-boot seems to use the special packaged kernel image.

For booting a Linux zImage, you simply jump to it's location (after setting up the registers). And you have to set up registers and jump to some extracted code anyway, no matter if you if the zImage is already there or if it just got extracted out of some mkimage-made image. Setting up the rigth registers with the right info is OS dependend anyway.

What is the reason for this, why do you think the image approach is better --- or even necessary?

Don't read this as a critique, I really don't understand the motivation behind this.