[PATCH 2/3] Kbuild: Implement CONFIG_UIMAGE_KERNEL_NOLOAD

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:

On 13:50 Wed 07 Mar     , Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:

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On 17:30 Tue 06 Mar     , Stephen Warren wrote:

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This allows the user to use U-Boot's mkimage's -T kernel_noload option
if their arch Kconfig allows it, and they desire.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <redacted>
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The next patch enables this new CONFIG_ALLOW_ option for ARM. I assume
that some other architectures will also be able to enable it, but I'm
not familiar enough with any to know which.

I'm going to repeat. I don't think any impromevent here.

You know what?  I agree with you... on a conceptual level only though.

In reality, some people are are just too used to it, either for 
emotional reasons or simply because that's what was there before so they 
simply perpetuated it without thinking further, or whatever.  REmoving 
that support would just upset a lot of people.  And frankly we have 
better things to do than starting a flamewar over this.

My concern is this new feature is available on new version of U-Boot only
and people that does not have it and built the uImage are going to ask the
question. Why bla bla bla....

Where people are supposed to RTFM

I do do not want to have the answer this and manage this.

Well, just don't then.


Nicolas