[OE-core] what must i supply WRT UBOOT_CONFIG/UBOOT_MACHINE when u-boot isn't in BSP?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Khem Raj wrote:

>
> > On Aug 5, 2016, at 11:52 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  i'm in the situation where i want to add the u-boot-fw-utils package
> > to my image, but the corresponding u-boot source for the target is not
> > part of the BSP layer; in fact, it's not part of a layer at all (built
> > manually elsewhere), so it's unsurprising that, if i add that recipe
> > to the image, i get:
> >
> > ERROR: u-boot-fw-utils was skipped: Either UBOOT_MACHINE or
> > UBOOT_CONFIG must be set in the ... machine configuration.
> > ERROR: u-boot-fw-utils was skipped: Either UBOOT_MACHINE or
> > UBOOT_CONFIG must be set in the ... machine configuration.
> >
> > is there a short doc that explains what i minimally need to supply to
> > build that package? i've never been in the situation where u-boot
> > wasn't part of the BSP.
>
> perhaps you need to set UBOOT_MACHINE = "config"

  i apologize, but i have no idea what that means. does that mean i
want to build that package, and it will consult /etc/fw_env.config
when the executables are run?

rday

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