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SubjectRe: [PATCH mips-next 0/2] mips: boot: add support for self-extracting FIT images (vmlinuz.itb)
Hi Alexander,

Le dim. 1 nov. 2020 à 15:11, Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me> a
écrit :
> Commit c3e2ee657418 ("MIPS: generic: Add support for zboot") added
> support for self-extracting images to Generic MIPS. However, the
> intended way to boot Generic MIPS kernels is using FIT Images and
> UHI boot protocol, but currently there's no way to make
> self-extracting
> FIT Image (only legacy uzImages).
>
> This set consists of two parts:
> 1) various cleanups in arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile as a
> prerequisite;
> 2) a new target named "vmlinuz.itb" for composing self-extracting
> FIT Images, which allows to have the advantages of both UHI and
> vmlinuz.
>
> The second part involves some scenarios duplication, but I think it
> can be a subject for another series (for constifying and unifying
> FIT Images rules across the architectures).
>
> Alexander Lobakin (2):
> mips: boot: clean up self-extracting targets scenarios
> mips: boot: add support for self-extracting FIT images (vmlinuz.itb)

It doesn't break anything on my end, so:

Acked-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>

for the series.

Why vmlinuz.itb and not vmlinuz.fit or vmlinuz.uhi? Is the .itb suffix
already a thing?

Cheers,
-Paul

> arch/mips/Makefile | 3 +-
> arch/mips/boot/.gitignore | 1 +
> arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile | 96
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.29.2
>
>


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