Dear Steve Sakoman, In message <aanlkti=vbvrsfp1rlggseguwh9kwvy_3tzu_qrqrv...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > I have a client that has asked me to look into loading zImage files > instead of uImage for some ARM based boards.
Why? > Any words of advice or warning in doing something similar for ARM? No. IMO it makes little sense. > Anyone familiar with the history of why uImage is the preferred > format? Just trying to learn . . . uImage, when done correctly, avoids that you have to add a pre-loader (including all of gzip and what else is needed to copy the uncom- pressed image to it's final location in RAM) to each and every kernel image - which is just a waste of time and resources as we already have all that code present in U-Boot. Note that the mainline ARM kernel does not make use of this; instead, it adds the preloader anyway. I never understood why. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
