[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm PATCH v2 3/3] linux-fslc: Refactor to use linux-imx.inc and avoid duplication of code

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Fri Apr 19 05:01:34 PDT 2013


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Daiane Angolini
<daiane.angolini at freescale.com> wrote:
> On 04/19/2013 05:03 AM, Eric Bénard wrote:
>>
>> Le Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:46:48 -0300,
>> Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Otavio Salvador
>>> <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Usually kernel would do the right thing but not in our case. Some
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't understand. Why 'usually'? In what sense is our case different?
>>>
>> maybe most defconfig support only one machine when those in
>> meta-fsl-arm support several machines sometimes with different LOADADDR
>> requirements and thus need the precision to get a working kernel on a
>> specific platform at compile time.
>
>
> I'm OK to accept the meta-fsl-arm workaround for this LOADADDR error. At
> least until we figure out a better way to properly fix that.
>
> Otavio, what do you think about adding KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS +=
> "LOADADDR=${UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT}" in mxc-base.inc and mxs-base.inc instead?

This is even worse IMO as we'd be changing something without being
clear we're doing. This would just make it harder to understand IMO.

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