Re: [U-Boot] what are valid formats for initrd image downloaded and used by "bootm"

2016-07-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Robert, > > In message you > wrote: > > > > yup, i just went through most of the above, and built a > > *cpio.gz.u-boot format ramdisk, and it works just fine, so i'm happy. > > onward ... > > For now this is OK, but you might consider switching

Re: [U-Boot] what are valid formats for initrd image downloaded and used by "bootm"

2016-07-08 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Robert, In message you wrote: > > yup, i just went through most of the above, and built a > *cpio.gz.u-boot format ramdisk, and it works just fine, so i'm happy. > onward ... For now this is OK, but you might consider switching to FIT images instead. These may look more complicated init

Re: [U-Boot] what are valid formats for initrd image downloaded and used by "bootm"

2016-07-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Robert, > > In message you > wrote: > > > > ok, and one last (admittedly a bit off-topic) followup ... > > openembedded supplies a class, image_types_uboot.bbclass, that can > > generate a pile of u-boot related images: > > > > IMAGE_TYPES += "ex

Re: [U-Boot] what are valid formats for initrd image downloaded and used by "bootm"

2016-07-08 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Robert, In message you wrote: > > ok, and one last (admittedly a bit off-topic) followup ... > openembedded supplies a class, image_types_uboot.bbclass, that can > generate a pile of u-boot related images: > > IMAGE_TYPES += "ext2.u-boot ext2.gz.u-boot ext2.bz2.u-boot >ext2.lzma.u-bo

Re: [U-Boot] what are valid formats for initrd image downloaded and used by "bootm"

2016-07-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Robert, > > In message you > wrote: > > > > using yocto project to build artifacts to tftp down to a board for > > "bootm" command -- what are the valid formats for the "initrd" object > > that can be recognized by "bootm"? since YP can generate

Re: [U-Boot] what are valid formats for initrd image downloaded and used by "bootm"

2016-07-08 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Robert, In message you wrote: > > using yocto project to build artifacts to tftp down to a board for > "bootm" command -- what are the valid formats for the "initrd" object > that can be recognized by "bootm"? since YP can generate a *ton* of > different image types. thanks. "bootm" unde

[U-Boot] what are valid formats for initrd image downloaded and used by "bootm"

2016-07-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
using yocto project to build artifacts to tftp down to a board for "bootm" command -- what are the valid formats for the "initrd" object that can be recognized by "bootm"? since YP can generate a *ton* of different image types. thanks. rday --