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

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue Mar 18 08:05:10 UTC 2014


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> > I have used buildroot in the past to generate u-boot + MLO and have just 
 >> > ignored these special options, using my u-boot config instead.
 >> 
 >> > Now I am looking at adding some configs, or working with existing ones, to add 
 >> > SOCFPGA handling. so I wanted to understand why things were done as they are 
 >> > so that I could do a better job.
 >> 
 >> I've also never used them (and disliked when they got added). Perhaps
 >> the time has come to deprecate those options?
 >> 
 >> Anybody disagrees?

 > I agree that those options are weird. I don't think we should be poking
 > into the U-Boot header files.

OK, then I will mark them as BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_2014_05.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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