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Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:49:46 +0100
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To:     Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
        Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>,
        Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
        linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH mips-next 0/2] mips: boot: add support for
 self-extracting FIT images (vmlinuz.itb)
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On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 03:11:07PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> Commit c3e2ee657418 ("MIPS: generic: Add support for zboot") added
> support for self-extracting images to Generic MIPS. However, the
> intended way to boot Generic MIPS kernels is using FIT Images and
> UHI boot protocol, but currently there's no way to make self-extracting
> FIT Image (only legacy uzImages).
> 
> This set consists of two parts:
> 1) various cleanups in arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile as a
>    prerequisite;
> 2) a new target named "vmlinuz.itb" for composing self-extracting
>    FIT Images, which allows to have the advantages of both UHI and
>    vmlinuz.
> 
> The second part involves some scenarios duplication, but I think it
> can be a subject for another series (for constifying and unifying
> FIT Images rules across the architectures).
> 
> Alexander Lobakin (2):
>   mips: boot: clean up self-extracting targets scenarios
>   mips: boot: add support for self-extracting FIT images (vmlinuz.itb)
> 
>  arch/mips/Makefile                 |  3 +-
>  arch/mips/boot/.gitignore          |  1 +
>  arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

series applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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