Dear Nicolas Pitre,
In message alpine.LFD.2.02.1111071942150.3307@xanadu.home you wrote:
But as you said yourself, the (raw) kernel is not relocatable. It gets loaded and started at pre-defined (at image build time) addresses. Only the kernel wrapper adds the complexity you are complaining about. Drop it, then.
Many of us insist on preserving that complexity. From our point of view, it is u-Boot which is too complex and should drop its uImage complexity.
Insisting without giving explanations about the reasons is not exactly a constructive form of a discussion. Actually it is no discussion at all.
But instead of asking you to drop u-Boot's complexity, I'm only asking for u-Boot to let both methods to coexist and work.
Ok, we can make a deal on such a base. See the suggestion inmy previous message.
Given that the zImage "complexity" is not going away because we insist on keeping it, either we find a middle ground such as Stephen's patches, or we advocate for a different bootloader on ARM.
Do you never happend to compromize once in a while?
In my understanding, compromize is not a one-sided business.
It is actually easy to convince me, but it needs facts and arguments, not mere insisting on preconceived statements or plain extortion.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk