On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 at 15:57, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 12:13:31PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 17:51, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > > > > > > At this time there are still major Linux distributions which by default > > > boot using LEGACY_IMAGE_FORMAT type scripts. Add this option to > > > DISTRO_DEFAULTS to ensure these platforms can still boot. > > > > What is the legacy image format exactly? Does select make it non > > optional, can we use imply or similar here? > > In this case "legacy image format" is uImage-style images, rather than > FIT images. And no, we can't imply it because then we'd break Debian > (which doesn't boot on a handful of platforms now which do have > DISTRO_DEFAULTS but don't have this).
The distro boot stuff, which if my memory servers, is what the DISTRO_DEFAULTS is used for, never used the uImage style kernels.
