[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] xr819-xradio: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:47:01 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > Yes, it's fine to point to the Armbian github. The only gotcha is how
>  > to do this without downloading the entire Github repository. I guess
>  > you will have to do something like this:  
> 
>  > XR819_FIRMWARE_VERSION = 8b4a4ed16f7f9d12e59ff2f9ceba3cc335374dbe
>  > XR819_FIRMWARE_SITE =
>  > https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/$(XR819_FIRMWARE_VERSION)/bin/firmware-overlay/xr819
>  > XR819_FIRMWARE_SOURCE = fw_xr819.bin
>  > XR819_FIRMWARE_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS = boot_xr819.bin sdd_xr819.bin  
> 
> The only problem is that these file names are not versioned, so it is
> difficult to ever change them in the future.

If the files are changed, we will change the hashes. Our download infra
will notice that the files in the dl folder have a hash that doesn't
match the one in the .hash file, and we re-download them.

So it seems to work alright, no?

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