Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-03-18 Thread Pavel Machek
On Fri 2013-02-22 08:00:44, Olof Johansson wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:37:10PM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Any comments on this approach? Is it better to merge mkfitsrc.sh with mkuboot.sh? I know this was discussed quite extensively yesterday, but here is my take on it: Given

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-03-18 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:36:53PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: On Fri 2013-02-22 08:00:44, Olof Johansson wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:37:10PM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Any comments on this approach? Is it better to merge mkfitsrc.sh with mkuboot.sh? I know this was

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-03-18 Thread Pavel Machek
On Mon 2013-03-18 16:44:26, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:36:53PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: On Fri 2013-02-22 08:00:44, Olof Johansson wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:37:10PM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Any comments on this approach? Is it better to

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-03-18 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 06:49:32PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: What I wanted to say is that kernel build traditionaly produced something useful, something bootloader can actually boot. Currently, make uImage produces u-boot image. Please keep that capability. Unfortunately, there is a

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-03-18 Thread Pavel Machek
On Mon 2013-03-18 17:57:46, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 06:49:32PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: What I wanted to say is that kernel build traditionaly produced something useful, something bootloader can actually boot. Currently, make uImage produces u-boot image.

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Russell, In message 20130318175746.gj30...@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk you wrote: Unfortunately, there is a fundamental problem with uImage. It encodes the load address, and that is utterly incompatible with the goal of having a kernel image which boots on multiple platforms. I'm not sure

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-23 Thread Joel A Fernandes
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux li...@arm.linux.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:37:10PM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Hello, I've been spinning some work-in-progress patches for FIT build support in the kernel. With the move to multiplatform support on

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-22 Thread Olof Johansson
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:37:10PM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Any comments on this approach? Is it better to merge mkfitsrc.sh with mkuboot.sh? I know this was discussed quite extensively yesterday, but here is my take on it: Given the recent complications from multiplatform, we really saw

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-21 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:37:10PM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Hello, I've been spinning some work-in-progress patches for FIT build support in the kernel. With the move to multiplatform support on OMAP, I feel it is a good time to add FIT support, also looking at the proliferating number

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Rini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/2013 05:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:37:10PM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Hello, I've been spinning some work-in-progress patches for FIT build support in the kernel. With the move to multiplatform

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Rini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/2013 11:26 PM, Stephen Warren wrote: On 02/20/2013 06:37 PM, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Hello, I've been spinning some work-in-progress patches for FIT build support in the kernel. With the move to multiplatform support on OMAP, I feel it is

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-21 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:20:56AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote: On 02/21/2013 05:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:37:10PM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Hello, I've been spinning some work-in-progress patches for FIT build support in the kernel. With the move to

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Rini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/2013 08:46 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:20:56AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote: On 02/21/2013 05:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:37:10PM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Hello,

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-21 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
(Dropped uboot mailing list because it constantly holds my mails for moderation.) On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:08:58AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote: On 02/21/2013 08:46 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: We're about to make it harder how? By forcing them to use DT blobs? Or by forcing them to have

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Rini
On 02/21/2013 09:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: (Dropped uboot mailing list because it constantly holds my mails for moderation.) On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:08:58AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote: On 02/21/2013 08:46 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: We're about to make it harder how? By

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Russell, In message 20130221134656.gc17...@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk you wrote: Note that FIT images are relatively old (docs date back to March 2008). This is more of another effort to try and update what the kernel uses. So it's five years old and people haven't been that

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-21 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
[uboot list deleted again] On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 06:37:07PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Russell, In message 20130221134656.gc17...@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk you wrote: Note that FIT images are relatively old (docs date back to March 2008). This is more of another effort to try

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-21 Thread Stephen Warren
On 02/21/2013 12:15 AM, Joel A Fernandes wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Stephen Warren swar...@wwwdotorg.org wrote: On 02/20/2013 06:37 PM, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Hello, I've been spinning some work-in-progress patches for FIT build support in the kernel. With the move to

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-21 Thread Stephen Warren
On 02/21/2013 06:29 AM, Tom Rini wrote: On 02/20/2013 11:26 PM, Stephen Warren wrote: On 02/20/2013 06:37 PM, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Hello, I've been spinning some work-in-progress patches for FIT build support in the kernel. With the move to multiplatform support on OMAP, I feel it is a

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Rini
On 02/21/2013 01:58 PM, Stephen Warren wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:15 AM, Joel A Fernandes wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Stephen Warren swar...@wwwdotorg.org wrote: On 02/20/2013 06:37 PM, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Hello, I've been spinning some work-in-progress patches for FIT build

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-20 Thread Stephen Warren
On 02/20/2013 06:37 PM, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Hello, I've been spinning some work-in-progress patches for FIT build support in the kernel. With the move to multiplatform support on OMAP, I feel it is a good time to add FIT support, also looking at the proliferating number of dtbs, as it

Re: [RFC] Kbuild support for ARM FIT images

2013-02-20 Thread Joel A Fernandes
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Stephen Warren swar...@wwwdotorg.org wrote: On 02/20/2013 06:37 PM, Joel A Fernandes wrote: Hello, I've been spinning some work-in-progress patches for FIT build support in the kernel. With the move to multiplatform support on OMAP, I feel it is a good time