[meta-ti] [PATCH 4/4] ti33x, ti43x, omap-a15: switch KERNEL_IMAGETYPE to zImage by default

[Cooper Jr., Franklin]

What is the benefit of this switch?

Although outdated a lot of posts talking about uImage vs zImage seems to favor uImage due to additional functionality that it provides.

> On Sep 23, 2013, at 9:28 PM, "Denys Dmytriyenko" <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> 
> From: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys at ti.com>
> 
> * To be used with latest u-boot, that prefers zImage over uImage
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys at ti.com>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>
> ---
> conf/machine/include/omap-a15.inc | 2 +-
> conf/machine/include/ti33x.inc    | 2 +-
> conf/machine/include/ti43x.inc    | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/conf/machine/include/omap-a15.inc b/conf/machine/include/omap-a15.inc
> index 623f2df..aba122a 100644
> --- a/conf/machine/include/omap-a15.inc
> +++ b/conf/machine/include/omap-a15.inc
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-ti-staging"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/bootloader = "u-boot-ti-staging"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_u-boot = "u-boot-ti-staging"
> 
> -KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "uImage"
> +KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "zImage"
> 
> UBOOT_ARCH = "arm"
> UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT = "0x80008000"
> diff --git a/conf/machine/include/ti33x.inc b/conf/machine/include/ti33x.inc
> index 12b80c6..7f02042 100644
> --- a/conf/machine/include/ti33x.inc
> +++ b/conf/machine/include/ti33x.inc
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-ti-staging"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/bootloader = "u-boot-ti-staging"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_u-boot = "u-boot-ti-staging"
> 
> -KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "uImage"
> +KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "zImage"
> 
> UBOOT_ARCH = "arm"
> UBOOT_MACHINE = "am335x_evm_config"
> diff --git a/conf/machine/include/ti43x.inc b/conf/machine/include/ti43x.inc
> index 62da105..adb66e3 100644
> --- a/conf/machine/include/ti43x.inc
> +++ b/conf/machine/include/ti43x.inc
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-ti-staging"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/bootloader = "u-boot-ti-staging"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_u-boot = "u-boot-ti-staging"
> 
> -KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "uImage"
> +KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "zImage"
> 
> UBOOT_ARCH = "arm"
> UBOOT_MACHINE = "am43xx_evm_config"
> -- 
> 1.8.3.2
> 
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