linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 0/6] scripts/make_fit: Support ramdisks and faster operations

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Message-Id: <177031941047.2027657.11296594038346797555.b4-ty@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:23:30 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Simon Glass <sjg@...omium.org>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>, 
 J . Neuschäfer <j.ne@...teo.net>, 
 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, 
 Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@...gutronix.de>, Tom Rini <trini@...sulko.com>, 
 Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, 
 Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, 
 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, 
 Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>, 
 Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, 
 linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/6] scripts/make_fit: Support ramdisks and faster
 operations

On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:27:30 -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> This series updates 'make image.fit' to support adding a ramdisk to the
> FIT, provided as a parameter.
> 
> It also includes a few performance improvement, so that building a FIT
> from ~450MB of kernel/module/devicetree files only takes a few seconds
> on a modern machine.
> 
> [...]

Applied to

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux.git kbuild-next

Thanks!

[1/6] scripts/make_fit: Speed up operation
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/621fd65adc825
[2/6] scripts/make_fit: Support an initial ramdisk
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/26428e7dd6a51
[3/6] scripts/make_fit: Move dtb processing into a function
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/873c2836982e1
[4/6] kbuild: Support a FIT_EXTRA_ARGS environment variable
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/9a329df6e0041
[5/6] scripts/make_fit: Support a few more parallel compressors
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/fcdcf22a34b07
[6/6] scripts/make_fit: Compress dtbs in parallel
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/c7c88b20cd422

Please look out for regression or issue reports or other follow up
comments, as they may result in the patch/series getting dropped or
reverted. Patches applied to an "unstable" branch are accepted pending
wider testing in -next and any post-commit review; they will generally
be moved to the main branch in a week if no issues are found.

Best regards,
-- 
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>