[OE-core] [PATCH] nativesdk-packagegroup-sdk-host: add nativesdk-u-boot-mkimage

[Viguera, Javier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burton, Ross [mailto:ross.burton at intel.com]
> 
> If we're adding u-boot to the SDK then we should add every bootloader.
> But why install grub for a PPC SDK?  This is why I suggested adding
> the right bootloader for each machine.

Hi Ross,

Not sure if I follow you. Are you suggesting adding this in a bbappend inside a BSP layer instead of oe-core?

Or something like the following would be suitable for oe-core?:

RDEPENDS_${PN}_append_arm = " nativesdk-u-boot-mkimage"

This seems strange to me as I don't know if all ARM machines use u-boot as bootloader. How do I restrict this per-machine?

Notice that strictly speaking this is not "adding u-boot to the SDK". It's a host tool that allows to create kernel images suitable for u-boot. But not only that, it also allows for example to create FIT (Flattened Image Tree) images. I seem to remember there was a patch lately to add support for FIT images to oe-core.

-- jviguera