On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Fabio Estevam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:37 PM, John Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I think this is a great idea but I believe we ought to make this for >>> all boards so we have it uniform across the boards; otherwise we'll >>> have a mix and it makes the support harder. > > Yes, in mainline U-boot I plan to convert them all at once.
Please do one commit per board; so it is easier to revert (if needed). >>> Considering we'd target this for 1.6, what would be the conversion plan? >>> >>> Who could be responsible for each board for converting/testing? >>> >> Not sure, my thought was to leave it to the board maintainers. Unless I'm >> mistaken (which is a possibility), for some reason uImage does not work when >> booting with the 3.10.X kernels. It that is the case then we either need to >> figure out the problem with uImages or others will be forced to use zImage >> anyway. > > I managed to boot FSL imx_3.10.9_1.0.0_alpha with mainline U-boot. Me too; All customer-kernels I've been doing (based on 3.10) been using zImage and it works quite well. Did you test older kernels (3.0.35 and 2.6.35, for example)? > Haven't tested imx_3.10.17_1.0.0_beta yet, but I can try it next week. > > Even if we manage to get imx_3.10.17_1.0.0_beta booting fine with > uImage, I still think that booting the zImage makes sense, as it can > avoid user errors by passing incorrect LOADADDR. I like this as a goal but this is not a simple change for the BSP; we need to make it work for both supported kernels and test both. The ideal would be to have all boards using zImage but we have a long way for this... Even if we convert all boards to zImage we need to keep support for uImage as customers may be using it for their internal boards. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
