[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/5] package/rpi-firmware: add option to install firmware files in target/boot/

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:50:55 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> 
> The firmware files must reside in a FAT filesystem, in the first partition
> of the SDcard, so it makes sense to install them in target/ (eg. for a
> post-image script to generate the different partitions from the rootfs.tar).

I don't understand the reasoning here. These files must be at the root
of a specific FAT filesystem, so I fail to see why installing them
inside the root filesystem is of any help to achieve that.

Yes, I've seen that it's probably related to the proposed logic to
generate a bundled image in PATCH 5/5, but for the moment, my feeling
is that if that logic requires *all* files to be present in the root
filesystem to be later installed in a separate FAT/boot filesystem,
then the logic isn't really appropriate, and should be improved, no?

I believe that the existing choice of installing things in
$(BINARIES_DIR)/rpi-firmware/ was a much better choice. That's a choice
I've kept in the series on Grub/Grub2/Gummiboot, by creating a
$(BINARIES_DIR)/efi/ directory.

Best regards,

Thomas
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