Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:50:08 +0100 (CET) | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] partitions/efi: add support for uImage.FIT sub-partitions |
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----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- > Von: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:19:10AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote: >> While weirdness is certainly subjective, uImage.FIT is not just a >> random image format but used by a great majority of headless embedded >> Linux devices out there. It's the default image format of many of the >> SDKs distributed by chip vendors such as Allwinner, Marvell, MediaTek, >> NXP, Qualcomm/Atheros, ... > > "Look see, my weird format is used by all these companies building > crappy SOCs, it is not weird.."
Well, FIT is not something strange invented by SoC companies, it comes from u-boot and is more or less a de-facto standard. While I agree that using the block layer for partition parsing is questionable I think supporting these images in Linux is a worthwhile goal.
Thanks, //richard
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