[OE-core] Updating u-boot for oe-core or meta-yocto

[Anders Darander]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 20:40, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 05/25/2011 09:49 AM, Henning Heinold wrote:
>> I agree with khem, each machine should maintain it's bootloader in his bsp
>> or layer.
>
> I'm leaning this way as well. I think oe-core should remain at an
> official u-boot tagged release, like 2011.03 and layers can then extend
> that with a proper .bbappend file. Then we can share the u-boot core
> recipe and just add backported patches in the layers as needed.

This definitely seems like the best solution.

BSP specific patches and modifications can normally easily be handled
in a .bbappend file. Together with the suggestion in another e-mail
(or even thread) to keep one old u-boot version around in oe-core, to
ease the transition to a new version in the BSP layers, this should be
no real problem.

If a machine for some reason needs a specific custom version, then it
might be necessary for that particular BSP layer to carry a complete
u-boot recipe. But this shouldn't be a common situation. (And if it
happens frequently, then the machine specific patches really has to be
submitted to upstream u-boot.).

Regards,
Anders

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Anders Darander