Hello Fabio, On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Fabio Estevam <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Good. >> 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. Sure but this does not mean we can convert all without proper testing, right? >>> 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. It does not; I think we must be a safe bed for our customers and we cannot shove down their throats a change like that. We must support this at least for one more release to keep some time for them to convert and adapt. -- 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
