[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 3/7] barebox: support custom barebox output image name

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 01:20:13 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > +config BR2_TARGET_BAREBOX_OUTPUT_IMAGE_FILE
> > +	string "Output image filename"
> 
>   With my suggestion of  BR2_TARGET_BAREBOX_IMAGE_NAME, this should be changed 
> to e.g. BR2_TARGET_BAREBOX_OUTPUT_IMAGE_NAME. The prompt looks OK though.
> 
> 
>   However, on second thought I'm wondering if it is really needed. For u-boot or 
> the kernel, we always copy the images with the same name as they were built. If 
> that is not what the ROM boot loader expects, the name can be changed in the 
> image generation script. For example, genimage.cfg could contain:
> 
> image boot.vfat {
>          vfat {
>                  file MLO {
> 			"barebox-am33xx-beaglebone-mlo.img"
> 		}
> 		file barebox.img {
> 			"barebox-am33xx-beaglebone.img"
>                  }
>          }
>          size = 8M
> }
> 
> 
>   What do you think?

I agree, we don't do this for U-Boot/kernel or any other thing, so I
don't think we should be doing it for Barebox.

Best regards,

Thomas
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