arm64: boot: Support Flat Image Tree

[thirdparty/kernel/stable.git] / Documentation / process / changes.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 7ef8de58f7f89252fb4e9330542d622d969d6a4e..3a39395bd9d3b28f00e56a3a8bf53a93e36dadcc 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Sphinx\ [#f1]_         2.4.4            sphinx-build --version
 cpio                   any              cpio --version
 GNU tar                1.28             tar --version
 gtags (optional)       6.6.5            gtags --version
+mkimage (optional)     2017.01          mkimage --version
 ====================== ===============  ========================================
 
 .. [#f1] Sphinx is needed only to build the Kernel documentation
@@ -189,6 +190,14 @@ The kernel build requires GNU GLOBAL version 6.6.5 or later to generate
 tag files through ``make gtags``.  This is due to its use of the gtags
 ``-C (--directory)`` flag.
 
+mkimage
+-------
+
+This tool is used when building a Flat Image Tree (FIT), commonly used on ARM
+platforms. The tool is available via the ``u-boot-tools`` package or can be
+built from the U-Boot source code. See the instructions at
+https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/build/tools.html#building-tools-for-linux
+
 System utilities
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