From: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH 1/2] kernel: pass loadaddr for building uImage
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:21:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5591181.gmbATJr0cS@ws-stein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54014cd5-74ef-3901-9459-953cb6b80d57@pengutronix.de>
On Tuesday 29 November 2016 10:04:19, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 11/28/2016 05:46 PM, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:21:31AM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> >> On newer kernels (4.x ?) kernel build fails when building an uImage
> >> unless you provide LOADADDR as kernel make var, which is put in the
> >> resulting uImage header. You could append it to
> >> PTXCONF_KERNEL_EXTRA_MAKEVARS but this would be just a workaround. This
> >> patch extends the menu if uImage is selected so you can directly input
> >> the desired address.
> >
> > I don't have a lot of experience with uImages. Marc, what do you think?
>
> According to rmk uimages are considered obsolete. However there are
> probably some old bootloaders around that insist of that format.
What image format is the successor then? Or which should be used instead?
Best regards,
Alexander
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-28 10:21 [ptxdist] [PATCH 0/2] kernel image generation extensions Alexander Dahl
2016-11-28 10:21 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 1/2] kernel: pass loadaddr for building uImage Alexander Dahl
2016-11-28 16:46 ` Michael Olbrich
2016-11-29 9:04 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2016-11-29 9:12 ` Michael Olbrich
2016-11-29 9:18 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2016-11-29 9:21 ` Alexander Stein [this message]
2016-11-29 9:23 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2016-11-30 10:06 ` Alexander Dahl
2016-11-28 10:21 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 2/2] image_kernel: new options for "appended DT" images Alexander Dahl
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