[PATCH 3/3] arm64: boot: Support Flat Image Tree

Russell King (Oracle) linux at armlinux.org.uk
Mon Oct 30 08:35:34 PDT 2023


On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 05:46:12AM +1300, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Masahiro,
> 
> Sure, but that is a separate issue, isn't it? We already support
> various boot targets in arm64 but not one that includes the DTs, so
> far as I can see. The old arm 'uImage' target is pretty out-of-date
> now.

Does that mean it can be removed? ;)

I've NAK'd FIT support on 32-bit Arm in the past, and I remain of the
opinion that boot loader specific packaging of the kernel should not
be in the kernel but should be external to it - even more so given the
multi-platform nature of 32-bit Arm kernels.

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