FIT vs legacy image format
FIT vs legacy image format U-Boot supports several image formats when booting a kernel. However, a Linux system usually need multiple files for booting. Such files may be the kernel itself, an initrd and a device tree blob.
A typical embedded Linux system have all these files in at least two-three different configurations. It's not uncommon to have
Default configuration Rescue configuration Development configuration Production configuration ... Only these four configurations may involve twelve different files.
Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Wednesday, October 18, 2017