On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:58:17AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i just noticed that the machine config file for mpc8315e-rdb still > lists "uImage" as the default image type: > > KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "uImage" > IMAGE_BOOT_FILES ?= "u-boot.bin uImage uImage-mpc8315erdb.dtb;dtb" > > is there anything about that target that still *requires* uImage > creation, as opposed to zImage? > > given that uImage is considered u-boot's "legacy" format, is there > any drawback to making zImage the default image type, and letting > folks drop back to uImage if they choose? > > put another way, is there anything that currently *ever* requires > the creation/use of a uImage format?
There are some boot methods/use-cases that only work with uImage. Not sure if that's the case with mpc8315e-rdb though... -- Denys -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto