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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:31:57 +0200
From: "Remy Bohmer" <linux@bohmer.net>
To: "Wolfgang Denk" <wd@denx.de>
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [patch 2/2] Add support for building the new U-boot uImage format (FIT-format)
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Hello Wolfgang,

>> If an older mkimage is detected, or if there is no dtc (Device Tree Compiler)
> Why should there ever be no dtc? It is part of the Linux kernel source
> tree, see arch/powerpc/boot/dtc-src

uuh, because it was not there in 2.6.24...?
And that was the kernel I made the patch for originally...

Will look into (all) your comments.
Thanks,

Remy


>
>> then automagically the legacy format is created.
>> There is also a possibility to force the legacy format by means of a Kconfig
>> option.
>
> As before, I think this should not be implemented as a  configuration
> option; it should be selectable as separate make targets without need
> to reconfigure / rebuild the kernel.
>
>> Note: This patch only adapts this for ARM, AVR32, Blackfin and sh architectures.
>>       It does not adapt the PowerPC tree, because PowerPC does not use the
>>       script at scripts/mkuboot.sh
>
> Hm... Power support would be especially interesting, of course :-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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