[Buildroot] [PATCH] configs: add nitrogen6sx_defconfig for Boundary Devices SoloX board

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Gary,

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 06:19:03PM +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:00:09 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> >> This board is using the exact same kernel and u-boot revision as the
> >> Nitrogen6x. They also share the same u-boot "autoboot" script.
> >>
> >> The differences between the two configurations are:
> >> - getty port is ttymxc0 instead of ttymxc1
> >> - uImage load address is 0x80008000
> >
> > Do you have a reason to keep using uImage instead of using zImage?
> > uImage are now a bit deprecated on ARM, and zImage is the modern way of
> > booting the kernel even from U-Boot (using the bootz command).
> 
> Legacy I guess. I should look into it but the main advantage I see of
> bootm/uImage is the CRC check. What is the story behind the switch to
> bootz?

Multiplatform. See [1], for example.

[1] 
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2011-September/066289.html

baruch

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