On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please do one commit per board; so it is easier to revert (if needed). Yes, by "convert them all at once" I mean to send a series of patches doing the conversion for several boards. > 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)? Booting a zImage is something that is really kernel version independent. >> 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. Then this defeats the whole purpose of the zImage transition then. Regards, Fabio Estevam _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
