[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/14] Add support for U-Boots Kbuild & Kconfig build system

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Jan 2 16:22:08 UTC 2015


Hello Jörg,

On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:40:06 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Thanks for working on this, definitely good to see someone tackling the
> bump to the first kconfig-enabled U-Boot version.
> 
> There is however one big issue with your patch series: I believe it
> breaks backward compatibility with U-Boot versions older than 2014.10.
> And a *lot* of people are using old versions of U-Boot, to which they
> are stuck due to the old version being their only choice for a given
> piece of hardware.
> 
> So we clearly need to continue to support older versions of U-Boot,
> that don't have the kconfig stuff. I just gave a try, and it seems like
> the old U-Boot way of configuring/building things apparently still
> works with U-Boot 2014.10. So your PATCH 01/14 is probably OK. However
> starting from 02/14, I believe you'll be breaking things for U-Boot
> versions older than 2014.10.
> 
> Can you work on a solution that preserves compatibility?

Since I had no feedback about this (probably due to the winter
holidays), I'll mark those patches as "Changes Requested" in patchwork.
Can you resend a new version that takes into account the need for
backward compatibility with older versions of U-Boot?

Thanks!

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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