[Buildroot] What's the buildroot attitude to u-boot building?

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Grant Edwards,

On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:49:43 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:

> I messed with using buildroot for building U-Boot, and decided it was
> better to build it outside of buildroot.  I found buildroot great for
> building a root filesystem, but I didn't find it useful for other
> things (like building toolchains, bootloaders, kernels, etc.).  I
> think it makes a lot more sense to build those separately.

Do you have more details about what you found unpractical in Buildroot
to build U-Boot and your kernel? What issues did you had, or things you
found not really nice?

Thanks for your feedback!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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