[OE-core] [PATCH] u-boot: Update to 2016.01 release

[Marek Vasut]

On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 10:37:16 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> ...
> 
> > Taking a look at u-boot.inc and uboot-config.bbclass makes me wonder how
> > all that could work at all. It's either a stackpile of legacy cruft or
> > just poor design.
> 
> I think it is a mix of both.
> 
> How would you address this in a clean way?

I would have one U-Boot build per package. Debian doesn't do it that way tho,
so their rationale might be something to consider here too.

I would also have exactly one variable to for a machine and it would be the
name of the config _WITHOUT_ any _config or _defconfig or _whatever suffix.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut