Re: [PATCH 0/5] kbuild

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Tue Jun 15 2004 - 15:07:21 EST


On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:46:16PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
>
> > Maybe Wolgang can jump in here - I do not know why mkimage is needed.
> > But I do like to have it present for convinience.
> > It is btw called mkuboot.sh in scripts/ to better say what it does.
>
> I'll let you read mkuboot.sh - you'll find that it's just a wrapper
> script to moan if you use mkuboot.sh and you don't have mkimage
> installed.
>
> I've no idea what mkimage actually does, but from the scant comments
> in mkuboot.sh, it seems to package up into a "U-Boot image".

I know. I objected to the mkimage name in the past for a script in scripts/
for the same reasons as you outline.

Sam
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