[PATCH 1/2] ARM: Add Kconfig option to use mkimage -T kernel_noload

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Stephen Warren wrote:

> Stephen Warren wrote at Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:03 PM:
> > uImage files typically encode a single absolute load and entry address.
> > This is inconvenient when attempting to share that uImage across multiple
> > SoCs with different physical RAM addresses. Recent versions of mkimage
> > implement a "kernel_noload" image type which encodes no absolute load
> > address, and a relative entry address. This works well for uImage-wrapped
> > ARM zImages, since they are relocatable.
> > 
> > This is enabled by commit b9b50e89d317c58becd0e2d7fac2e21e3a81dd0a
> > "image: Implement IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD" in U-Boot.
> 
> So Russell, are you NAKing this patch then?
> 
> If so, I guess I'll just go and add more cruft to my copy-a-kernel-to-
> an-sd-card script. Which is a pity since every other person will have
> to do the same, but oh well.

What about moving all the u-Boot bells and whistles to a generic 
top-level Kconfig+Makefile to be shared with all architectures?  Really, 
there is nothing very ARM specific here.


Nicolas