linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] Kbuild: centralize MKIMAGE and cmd

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Message-ID: <4F57A8FA.8080208@wwwdotorg.org>
Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:29:14 -0700
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
CC:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
	Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>, nico@...xnic.net,
	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Kbuild: centralize MKIMAGE and cmd_uimage definitions

On 03/07/2012 07:15 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org> wrote:
>> All ARCHs have the same definition of MKIMAGE. Move it to Makefile.lib
>> to avoid duplication.
>>
>> All ARCHs have similar definitions of cmd_uimage. Place a sufficiently
>> parameterized version in Makefile.lib to avoid duplication.
>>
>> The centralized cmd_uimage definition will allow the future introduction
>> of a centralized Kconfig option to make cmd_uimage use -T kernel_noload
>> rather than -T kernel.
...
> Is there a reason you skipped powerpc?

grepping the powerpc makefiles showed no hits on MKIMAGE, mkimage or
cmd_uimage.

Looking a little harder now, this is all inside the shell script
arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper. I'm not really sure quite how to unify that
shell script with the makefile use of mkimage. Do you have any ideas?
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