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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>,
	ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH 1/2] kernel: pass loadaddr for building uImage
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:23:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8403d8fb-95bc-8ee4-9799-6ca11a271961@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5591181.gmbATJr0cS@ws-stein>


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On 11/29/2016 10:21 AM, Alexander Stein wrote:
> 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?

zImage

Marc

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-29  9:23 UTC|newest]

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
2016-11-29  9:23         ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
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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