Hi Tom,
On 3 June 2014 10:59, Tom Rini trini@ti.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:11:14PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Tom,
On 24 May 2014 06:21, Tom Rini trini@ti.com wrote:
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 03:57:34PM -1000, Simon Glass wrote:
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It surprises me the lengths to which people are going to try to shoehorn .dtbs, compression, multiple dtbs, multi-arch etc. into the kenel zImage format. The decompression header is ugly, plus it is slower than doing these things in U-Boot.
Well, with arm64 the kernel is just getting out of the business, hence booti (or however we add Image support) and not do the zImage dance.
Does this mean a clean Image with no add-ons?
Yes, Image only, and different from arch/arm/boot/Image. Leaving the details of how to find/place the device tree and initrd up to the bootloader.
That sounds promising. So no more decompression / serial UART / cache-enable header?
Regards, Simon