Stephen Warren wrote at Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:18 PM: > The legacy uImage format includes an absolute load and entry-point > address. When bootm operates on a kernel uImage in memory that isn't > loaded at the address in the image's load address, U-Boot will copy > the image to its address in the header. > > Some kernel images can actually be loaded and used at any arbitrary > address. An example is an ARM Linux kernel zImage file. To represent > this capability, IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD is implemented, which operates > just like IH_TYPE_KERNEL, except that the load address header is > ignored, and U-Boot does not copy the image to its load address, but > rather uses it in-place. > > This is useful when sharing a single (uImage-wrapped) zImage across > multiple boards with different memory layouts; in this case, a specific > load address need not be picked when creating the uImage, but instead > is selected by the board-specific U-Boot environment used to load and > boot that image. > > v2: Rename from IH_TYPE_KERNEL_ANYLOAD to IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swar...@nvidia.com>
Wolfgang, Does this version of the patch look OK; can it be applied? Thanks. -- nvpublic _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
