[meta-freescale] [RFC] default u-boot

[Eric Nelson]

Hi all,

On 10/10/2013 09:28 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Daiane Angolini
> <daiane.angolini at freescale.com> wrote:
>> On 10/10/2013 11:26 AM, Eric Nelson wrote:
>>>> u-boot-fslc is our recipe that points to "trye main-line U-Boot". It's
>>>> hosted on github only to keep some needed backport patches.
>>>>
>>>
>>> IOW, the same thing we use ours for. If it makes things easier, we could
>>> push a 'boundary' branch there when we update things.
>>
>>
>> <3
>>
>> I think it would be perfect =D
>> (if not for Dora, absolutely for 1.6)
>>
>> Otavio, what do you think?
>
> I am not sure; I think the u-boot-boundary gives the clear notion it
> is something done by Bondary. If we'd use u-boot-fslc we'd need to
> have the changes in same branch as used by other boards or it loses
> its meaning.
>
> My goal with u-boot-fslc is to have a /single/ u-boot for most boards;
> so it is essentially U-Boot mainline plus bugfixes; supporting
> multiple branches for different boards I think it will confuse people.
>
> It seems the best would be if, instead of pushing to our u-boot GIT,
> it had regular updates in the u-boot-boundary recipes and point to
> newer revisions.
>

We'll make sure to update with each switch in our production branch.

Regards,


Eric