Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:00:25 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] partitions/efi: add support for uImage.FIT sub-partitions |
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:19:10AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote: > While weirdness is certainly subjective, uImage.FIT is not just a > random image format but used by a great majority of headless embedded > Linux devices out there. It's the default image format of many of the > SDKs distributed by chip vendors such as Allwinner, Marvell, MediaTek, > NXP, Qualcomm/Atheros, ...
"Look see, my weird format is used by all these companies building crappy SOCs, it is not weird.."
> Please let me know if this sounds acceptable, so I won't put effort > into implementing something which will then be rejected again after 5 > iterations on the mailing list for reasons which could have been > expressed from the beginning. An RFC for this series was posted on > 2022-04-25 [1], I wouldn't have worked months to fix all requests of > other maintainers and tested it on a variety of different hardware > knowing that the whole approach will be NACK'ed...
If people ignore something that is obviously broken they might just hope for it to go away, becaue often it does.
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