[Buildroot] [PATCH] barebox: add support for custom version, tarball, git and patch dir

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Thu Sep 22 19:55:27 UTC 2011


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

 Arnout> On Saturday 17 September 2011 22:23:08, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 
 Arnout> wrote:
 >> +config BR2_TARGET_BAREBOX_CUSTOM_PATCH_DIR
 >> +       string "custom patch dir"
 >> +       help
 >> +         If your board requires custom patches, add the path to the
 >> +         directory containing the patches here. The patches must be
 >> +         named barebox-<version>-<something>.patch.
 >> +
 >> +         Most users may leave this empty

 Arnout>  Do people often use buildroot this way?  I always make a
 Arnout> project-specific branch of the buildroot tree and drop any
 Arnout> patches directly in there.

I need to support a bunch of projects at work, so I keep them all in a
seperate repo (which gets synced with mainline buildroot ever so
often. Bootloader and kernel are likewise in (shared) local repos.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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