[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH 1/4] barebox: add a recipe to support mainline 2013.08.0

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 22/08/2013 20:00, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> wrote:
>> Hi Alexandre,
>>
>> Le Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:51:14 +0200,
>> Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com>
>>> ---
>>>  recipes-bsp/barebox/barebox_2013.08.0.bb | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 recipes-bsp/barebox/barebox_2013.08.0.bb
>>>
>>> diff --git a/recipes-bsp/barebox/barebox_2013.08.0.bb b/recipes-bsp/barebox/barebox_2013.08.0.bb
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..2f6118b
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/recipes-bsp/barebox/barebox_2013.08.0.bb
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
>>> +require recipes-bsp/barebox/barebox.inc
>>> +
>>> +PR = "r1"
>>> +
>>> +SRC_URI = "http://barebox.org/download/${PN}-${PV}.tar.bz2"
>>> +
>>> +SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a61b97a2fedebc808d4b182c2ca18a0c"
>>> +SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "d9e46dd3c68b04ab4cbc37135dc34907dbebef393da4b3e54abb203c295c1620"
>>> +
>>> +python () {
>>> +     if not d.getVar("BAREBOX_MACHINE", True):
>>> +             PN = d.getVar("PN", True)
>>> +             FILE = os.path.basename(d.getVar("FILE", True))
>>> +             bb.debug(1, "To build %s, see %s for instructions on \
>>> +                          setting up your machine config" % (PN, FILE))
>>> +             raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("BAREBOX_MACHINE is not set in the %s machine configuration." % d.getVar("MACHINE", True))
>>> +}
>>> +
>> if you plan to create a generic barebox recipe and as barebox is using
>> Kconfig like Linux does, I would recommend to include the defconfig for
>> your board here as done on the kernel side instead of using the
>> defconfig which may exist into barebox's mainline sources (that makes
>> customization easier especially when using SOM).
>>
>> If you don't plan do create the generic barebox recipe, that's still on
>> my todo list but with a very low priority :-)
> Agreed.
>
I'm actually wondering about that. The defconfig included in the barebox
mainline is perfectly fine. And people wanting to change it will have to
write a bbappend anyway or am I missing something ?
Anyway, I don't have a strong opinion on that one.

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com