Re: [PATCH] Add 'make uImage' for PPC32

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:01:58AM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:29:28AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > Hello. The following BK patch adds support for a 'uImage' target on
> > PPC32. This will create an image for the U-Boot (and formerly PPCBoot)
> > firmware. The patch adds a scripts/mkuboot.sh as a wrapper for the
> > U-Boot mkimage program. We put mkuboot.sh into scripts/ because
> > U-Boot works on a number of other platforms, and it's likely that they
> > will add a uImage target at some point.  Please apply.
> 
> Integrating the U-Boot mkimage into the kernel would be a great thing
> for us Embedded folks (U-Boot supports most interesting platforms these
> days), but I don't like your way to provide a script wrapper around the
> "real" mkimage; I'm not sure what the maintainers think about this but I
> would prefer a "native" mkuimage.c -> mkuimage.  

>From what I recall this originally (when it was 'pImage') came from
Wolfgang, or at least he was happy with it.  If someone else wants to
fight for the inclusion of the true mkimage.c program from U-Boot,
that's fine with me.

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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