Hi Stephen, On 24 November 2014 at 10:11, Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote: > On 11/23/2014 09:12 AM, Simon Glass wrote: >> >> Modern kernels require a device tree to boot. > > > True. > >> Enable FIT support to permit >> >> booting these images, rather than just legacy images. > > > I don't understand this? Modern kernels boot perfectly well without FIT > support. U-Boot supports the kernel's standard separate DTB and zImage file > formats just fine. > > To be honest, I'd strongly prefer not to enable support for non-universal > (bootloader-specific) formats such as FIT.
In U-Boot? FIT is U-Boot's standard format and avoids all the mess that is zImage with a single attached DTB, etc. > >> This allows booting of Chrome OS kernels, among other things. > > > This might be a reasonable justification to support FIT. However, it'd be > best to enable FIT support only on boards that are actually supported by > ChromeOS, so as not to pollute other boards' configuration. I feel that FIT is a pretty core feature for U-Boot. Are you worried about the space? Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
