[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH 2/4] image_types_fsl: use generic links for barebox.mxsboot-sdcard

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com
Thu Jul 23 15:41:12 PDT 2015


On 23/07/2015 at 14:01:36 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote :
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Alexandre Belloni
> <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > Add generic links for barebox.mxsboot-sdcard as it actually doesn't
> > really depend on the image being generated. This allows to access the
> > binary from scripts not using $IMAGE_NAME.
> >
> > The previous link is kept to provide an upgrade path.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com>
> 
> I understand the need to do this and I agree with the concept. However
> it highlighted a design issue we have:
> 
> The mxsboot-sdcard and mxsboot-nand images ought to be generated in
> do_deploy of barebox and u-boot, not during the image generation.
> 
> Are you willing to rework this?
> 

I probably don't have the time now but yes, my final goal is to get rid
of the whole image_types_fsl.bbclass

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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