From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D2AC4332F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233972AbiKQGuS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:50:18 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41594 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233502AbiKQGuP (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:50:15 -0500 Received: from lithops.sigma-star.at (lithops.sigma-star.at [195.201.40.130]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E61395CD3C; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:50:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lithops.sigma-star.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA0063E5142; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:50:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from lithops.sigma-star.at ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lithops.sigma-star.at [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id C-8DFjzXAIMN; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:50:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lithops.sigma-star.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD56263E514E; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:50:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from lithops.sigma-star.at ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lithops.sigma-star.at [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id SXXDuArp9_Qv; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:50:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from lithops.sigma-star.at (lithops.sigma-star.at [195.201.40.130]) by lithops.sigma-star.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868FA63E5142; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:50:08 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:50:08 +0100 (CET) From: Richard Weinberger To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Daniel Golle , Jens Axboe , Miquel Raynal , Vignesh Raghavendra , Matthew Wilcox , "Martin K. Petersen" , Chaitanya Kulkarni , Michal Orzel , linux-block , linux-kernel , linux-mtd Message-ID: <271114315.250800.1668667808308.JavaMail.zimbra@nod.at> In-Reply-To: References: <7526fc5a461a0d68eb1dab575f9c1950638fc21a.1668548123.git.daniel@makrotopia.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] partitions/efi: add support for uImage.FIT sub-partitions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Originating-IP: [195.201.40.130] X-Mailer: Zimbra 8.8.12_GA_3807 (ZimbraWebClient - FF97 (Linux)/8.8.12_GA_3809) Thread-Topic: partitions/efi: add support for uImage.FIT sub-partitions Thread-Index: ujVCwDZmDXzDbx5XljCrk+OdLhc8MQ== Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- > Von: "Christoph Hellwig" > 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