Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:41:01 -0600 | From | Josh Boyer <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] Merge mkimage tool for building uImages |
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:36:48 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote: > > Several platforms require the mkimage tool to generate a uImage file > > that is used with U-Boot. This brings the mkimage tool in-kernel to > > enable building those platforms without having mkimage internally > > provided. > > > > This is currently based off of the version found in U-Boot 1.3.1. > > > > Can we rename it either "ubootimage" or "mkuboot" or something else that > tells the user what kind of image it is? (It is, in particular, not > bzImage, which is probably the first thing that someone who sees "image" > in a arch-generic part of the Linux kernel tree will think.)
We can, yes. I have no particular objection to that and I've often found mkimage to be too generic of a name myself. For the initial round of patches, I just wanted to keep things as similar to what is in U-Boot as possible.
josh
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