On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:36:48 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> 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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