[meta-freescale] About customizing the image_types_fsl class

[Daiane.Angolini at freescale.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Rafael Giani [mailto:dv at pseudoterminal.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:05 AM
> To: Fabio Estevam
> Cc: Angolini Daiane-B19406; meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] About customizing the image_types_fsl class
> 
> On 2014-01-20 20:48, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani
> > <dv at pseudoterminal.org> wrote:
> >> On 2014-01-20 16:00, Daiane Angolini wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As I know it's supposed to be released today/tomorrow
> >>>
> >> Just had a discussion with developers working on Cubox-I support.
> >> They tried
> >> to push MXC SPL support for the CuBox-i upstream, didn't work out so
> >> far.
> > Have they sent their patch to the U-boot list? If so, care to point me
> > where these patches are in the list?
> >
> > I do not recall seeing any patches from them in the U-boot mailing list.
> 
> The patches were made by Jon Nettleton. According to him, this discussion
> happened offline. Hence no mailing list patches.
> 
> >
> >> Otavio suggested to use mainline without SPL for now, but I am
> >> skeptical about it. SPL is a very nice feature, it allows me to use
> >> the exact same installation for several Cubox-i machines.
> >>
> >> The way I see it, there are two options for me:
> >> 1) Use the u-boot fork with MXC SPL support for now, until mainline
> >> supports MXC SPL. Then immediately switch to mainline by applying a
> >> patch to meta-fsl-arm-extra.
> >> 2) Use mainline without SPL, and live with the fact that I need a
> >> build for every single CuBox-i machine.
> > Or even better:
> >
> > 3) Work on upstreaming mx6 spl support into mainline U-boot
> >
> 
> He tried just that, and ran into a wall. When he has time, he may be able
> to drop in and explain what happened in his own words.
> Also, we just discovered that barebox has CuBox-i and HummingBoard support
> already. Its design seems to be much nicer and easier to manage.
> Has barebox ever been considered a u-boot alternative for meta-fsl-arm ?

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-fsl-arm/tree/recipes-bsp/barebox


Daiane