[PATCH 2/7] scripts: new kwbimage manipulation tool for Marvell SoC boot images

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 16:32 Sat 04 May     , Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 09:51:25PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > On 18:51 Fri 03 May     , Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > > The Marvell EBU SoCs (Kirkwood, Armada 370, Armada XP) have a BootROM
> > > that understand a specific image format, composed of a main header,
> > > several extension headers and a paylod. This image can be booted from
> > > NAND, SPI, SATA, UART, NOR, etc.
> > > 
> > > This patch adds a tool that allows to extract the components and
> > > configuration of existing images, and to create new images.
> > 
> > I don't like this
> 
> Why?
to geneate a simple header do it in C not with a tools
> 
> > please as on imx in barebox directly
> 
> what?  Could you please explain?

read the imx code we do it in C and place it at the begenning of the binary so
no need such tools and we can use linker scirpt and CONFIG_xx

Stop to think u-boot here

> 
> thx,
> 
> Jason.