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

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Message-ID: <20071220134101.679d90cd@zod.rchland.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:41:01 -0600
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paulus@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] Merge mkimage tool for building uImages

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:36:48 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> wrote:

> 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.)

We can, yes.  I have no particular objection to that and I've often
found mkimage to be too generic of a name myself.  For the initial
round of patches, I just wanted to keep things as similar to what is
in U-Boot as possible.

josh
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