[Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot/target/u-boot
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Wed Apr 23 18:05:20 UTC 2008
>>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson at atmel.com> writes:
>> Author: jacmet
>> Date: 2008-04-23 06:03:53 -0700 (Wed, 23 Apr 2008)
>> New Revision: 21809
>>
>> Log:
>> u-boot: tools in target (mkimage, fw_printenv and fw_setenv)
>>
>>
Ulf> Why install mkimage in the target???
To create images and more importantly, to see the version info of
images in the flash (mkimage -l).
Ulf> It is used to create the linux kernel image so that U-Boot can load it.
Ulf> If you download a new image, I would expect it is already created
Ulf> using mkimage on the host.
Sure, but uImages are not just for kernels, E.G. the board I'm working
on has firmware for 2 fpgas in seperate uImages. It's handy to be able
to check the version info of the installed images under Linux, similar
to the imls u-boot command.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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