[PATCH 3/3] UBUNTU: auto-generate uImage file

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Thu Jul 15 14:26:55 UTC 2010


On 07/13/2010 01:36 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 13.07.2010, 11:44 +0800 schrieb Bryan Wu:
>>
>> I'd like to say this patch is quit convenient for building ARM image for U-Boot.
>> But it contains sort of hard coded load address and entry address which are
>> specific for TI omap4 processor. It's not right to do that in our debian
>> packaging system.
>>
>> How about using scripts/mkuboot.sh in kernel source tree?
>>
>> And Oliver, when do you prepare uImage from vmlinuz file? I guess it is when we
>> installed the kernel package on ti-omap4 target, right?
> pleas dont do that, that means we need to special case flash-kernel for
> that one platform, while flash-kernel generates uImage and uInitrd for
> all others, just ship the vmlinuz binary as in all other linux packages,
> flash-kernel is run on each update-initramfs run and will generate
> uImage automatically together with uInitrd anyway.
>
> ciao
> 	oli
>

NAK'd as requested.

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