[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH V3 0/4] Drop rpi-mkimage and use upstream u-boot

[Paul Barker]

On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:07:02 +0100
Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:

> Following discussion on the Raspberry Pi tools bug tracker it was
> found that rpi-mkimage is no longer needed with recent firmware. It
> can therefore be dropped from the layer completely.
> 
> Whilst looking into this I also found that the u-boot-rpi recipe in
> meta-raspberrypi can now be replaced by direct use of the mainline
> u-boot recipe from oe-core. The 2016.03 release of u-boot supports
> the original Raspberry Pi and the Raspberry Pi 2. Configuration of
> the u-boot environment to directly boot the uImage file on the SD
> card must still be done manually - I'm going to look into making this
> work by default in the near future.
> 
> Changes for V2:
>     * Don't remove linux-raspberrypi 3.18 just yet
>     * Drop move of PV setting out of linux-raspberrypi.inc
> 
> Changes for V3:
>     * Rebase onto latest master
> 
> Paul Barker (4):
>   linux-raspberrypi: rpi-mkimage is no longer needed
>   u-boot: Use mainline u-boot recipe from oe-core
>   rpi-mkimage: Remove unused recipe
>   sdcard_image-rpi: Always install dtb files
> 
>  classes/sdcard_image-rpi.bbclass                   | 42
> +++++++++++-----------
> conf/machine/include/rpi-default-providers.inc     |  1 -
> conf/machine/raspberrypi.conf                      |  2 ++
> conf/machine/raspberrypi2.conf                     |  2 ++
> recipes-bsp/rpi-mkimage/rpi-mkimage/License        | 25
> ------------- .../open-files-relative-to-script.patch            | 17
> --------- recipes-bsp/rpi-mkimage/rpi-mkimage_git.bb         | 22
> ------------ recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-rpi_git.bb               | 29
> --------------- recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc         |
> 20 ----------- 9 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 135 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 recipes-bsp/rpi-mkimage/rpi-mkimage/License delete
> mode 100644
> recipes-bsp/rpi-mkimage/rpi-mkimage/open-files-relative-to-script.patch
> delete mode 100644 recipes-bsp/rpi-mkimage/rpi-mkimage_git.bb delete
> mode 100644 recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-rpi_git.bb
> 

Ping on this.

Thanks,
Paul Barker