linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] Merge mkimage tool for building uImages

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Message-ID: <476AB640.4040005@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:36:48 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paulus@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] Merge mkimage tool for building uImages

Josh Boyer wrote:
> Several platforms require the mkimage tool to generate a uImage file
> that is used with U-Boot.  This brings the mkimage tool in-kernel to
> enable building those platforms without having mkimage internally
> provided.
> 
> This is currently based off of the version found in U-Boot 1.3.1.
> 

Can we rename it either "ubootimage" or "mkuboot" or something else that 
tells the user what kind of image it is?  (It is, in particular, not 
bzImage, which is probably the first thing that someone who sees "image" 
in a arch-generic part of the Linux kernel tree will think.)

	-hpa
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