[meta-freescale] IMAGE_BOOTLOADER vs. PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/bootloader

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi,

On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 16:44:15 -0300 Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart
> <mario at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> I'm making a script to extract data out of bitbake's cache metadata and
>> stumbled upon IMAGE_BOOTLOADER.
>>
>> Is there any special reason to use IMAGE_BOOTLOADER instead of
>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/bootloader?
>
> Very good point.  I think when I did the class, for SD card
> generation, we hadn't this around (or I missed it).
>
> Looking at it, this should indeed be dropped but it is going to need
> some work as we need to provide a u-boot-dummy for the cases when we
> don't need a bootloader in the SD card image, as it is the case for
> Nitrogen boards for example.
>
> We can discuss how to address it for 1.7 later.

Ok.

There are also boards which set PREFERRED_PROVIDER_u-boot.  As far as I
understand, PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/bootloader would do the trick for
those cases too.

Best wishes.
Mario
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