linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] scripts/make_fit: Support an initial ramdisk

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Message-ID: <aQ-y6CCg06lg39oq@levanger>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2025 22:15:20 +0100
From: Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>
To: Simon Glass <sjg@...omium.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>,
	Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@...gutronix.de>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	J . Neuschäfer <j.ne@...teo.net>,
	Tom Rini <trini@...sulko.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] scripts/make_fit: Support an initial ramdisk

On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 05:01:53PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> FIT (Flat Image Tree) allows a ramdisk to be included in each
> configuration. Add support for this to the script.
> 
> This feature is not available via 'make image.fit' since the ramdisk
> likely needs to be built separately anyway, e.g. using modules from
> the kernel build. A later patch in this series provides support for
> doing that.
> 
> Note that the uncompressed size is not correct when a ramdisk is use,

I think something is missing: "is in use" or "is used"?

> since it is too expensive to decompress the ramdisk.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@...omium.org>
> ---
> 

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>

-- 
Nicolas