[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH 1/3] u-boot-toradex: add U-Boot recipe for Toradex i.MX 6 based modules

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Stefan,

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch> wrote:
> On 2015-12-03 08:47, Max Krummenacher wrote:
>> This allows building U-Boot supporting Toradex modules based on i.MX 6
>> Apalis iMX6 and Colibri iMX6.
>> The source is combined with the source already used for our Vybrid based
>> modules and fetched directly from our Git server at git.toradex.com.
>>
>>   - based on upstream U-Boot 2015.04
>>   - environment storage in eMMC
>>   - Ethernet
>>   - enabled gpio command line interface
>>   - enabled DFU and Mass Storage on USB client
>>   - framebuffer support
>>   - MMC/SD cards
>>   - eMMC flash
>>   - RAM size auto detection
>>   - serial console debug UART1
>>   - Toradex Apalis configuration block handling
>>   - USB storage as host on USB host ports
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher at toradex.com>
>> ---
>>  recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-toradex_2015.04.bb | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-toradex_2015.04.bb
>> b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-toradex_2015.04.bb
>> index 175add2..17c9267 100644
>> --- a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-toradex_2015.04.bb
>> +++ b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-toradex_2015.04.bb
>> @@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ PV = "v2015.04-v2.5b2+git${SRCPV}"
>>
>>  SRCREV = "1ef4a29e8cea0239411dde64f9617ad76248fd02"
>>  SRCBRANCH = "2015.04-toradex"
>> -COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "(vf)"
>> +COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "(apalis-imx6|colibri-imx6|vf)"
>
> We have now a bit a mix and match between SoC's and machines. Maybe
> specify the machines explicitly as Max did is the better choice since
> that is what we tested with that tree (although, I guess whatever works
> upstream should also work with our tree, we usually do not break other
> stuff on purpose :-))
>
> @Otavio, any preference?

I prefer SoC family as it makes easier for end customers to customized
it without need to override the compatibility set in a bbappend. As
this provides a SoM it is common it ends being used in a custom
carrier board and eventually a new machine file in a customer layer
can reuse the recipe.

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