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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Viguera, Javier <Javier.Viguera at digi.com> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Burton, Ross [mailto:ross.burton at intel.com]
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>> 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.
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> Hi Ross,
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> Not sure if I follow you. Are you suggesting adding this in a bbappend inside a BSP layer instead of oe-core?
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> Or something like the following would be suitable for oe-core?:
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> RDEPENDS_${PN}_append_arm = " nativesdk-u-boot-mkimage"
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> 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?
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> 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.

Ross concern is because we shouldn't force mkimage in every SDK. If
someone is using barebox, or grub, it shouldn't be added.

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