[PATCH v3 4/5] ARM: vexpress: Initial RS1 memory map support

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 18:03:19 EST 2011


> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > For the record, the changes are now in U-Boot master:
> > 
> > d510859 image: Don't detect XIP images as overlapping.
> > b9b50e8 image: Implement IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD
> 
> Yay!  Thank you Stephen for driving this to a successful resolution.
> 
> Of course, boards won't be updated to the latest u-boot right away

Though we should demand it on the new boards at least.

> , nor
> will the enhanced mkimage tool be commonly available.

Why not, just tell people to use up-to-date tools, otherwise you can't support 
them. It's really easy.

> 
> > I should also note that Marek Vasut posted some patches to implement a
> > bootz command in U-Boot. This turned out to be much less invasive than
> > I originally thought, so once those patches are finalized, uImage might
> > be irrelevant except for initrds (U-Boot already accepts a raw FDT
> > without uImage wrapping for bootm and hence bootz).
> > 
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg69287.html
> 
> Excellent!
> 
Nico, please see my other mail. This is really going to 2012.03 release 
earliest. 2011.12 release is definitelly missed, sorry.

> 
> Nicolas

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