Stephen Warren wrote at Thursday, December 01, 2011 9:20 AM:

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Dave Martin wrote at Thursday, December 01, 2011 5:14 AM:

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On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:10:50AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 04:38:26PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Mark Brown wrote:

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Oh, dear.  Any pointers to the discussions on the u-boot side?

Certainly.  Many different threads actually.  Here's a few:

OK, thanks - I see Stephen just followed up and Wolfgang seems
moderately happy so hopefully there will be some progress.  It also
occurs to me that there's at least Qi also using uImages, hopefully
other bootloaders are going to be easier to deal with (or already
cope).

If Stephen's patches are heading for merge, that's great.

If this feature remains blocked though, could we support Wolfgang's
preference for start-of-RAM-relative load and entry address?

It looks like my change is progressing to being checked in:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-December/111865.html

For the record, the changes are now in U-Boot master:

d510859 image: Don't detect XIP images as overlapping.
b9b50e8 image: Implement IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD

I should also note that Marek Vasut posted some patches to implement a
bootz command in U-Boot. This turned out to be much less invasive than
I originally thought, so once those patches are finalized, uImage might
be irrelevant except for initrds (U-Boot already accepts a raw FDT
without uImage wrapping for bootm and hence bootz).

http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg69287.html

Hi guys,

I'm now cleaning up the PXA support in U-Boot and there's also a lot of 
university load. It's unlikely bootz will make it to .12, but 2012.03 seems 
real. Any help is welcome though.

M