[OE-core] [AUH] u-boot-mkimage: upgrading to 2018.05 FAILED

[Marek Vasut]

On 05/17/2018 03:04 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 05/17/2018 01:33 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> Looks like AUH runs as a x86 machine, which is why it doesn't catch
>>>> u-boot.
>>>
>>> Also we have already discussed this 2 month ago. Marek, as the u-boot
>>> maintainer, can you look into enabling u-boot on qemu please?
>>
>> Wouldn't it make more sense to fix the AUH so it handles U-Boot and
>> similar packages correctly even without the qemu dependency ?
> 
> Determining the latest upstream version, performing the recipe upgrade,
> and testing that the upgraded version builds are all done by calling
> bitbake. Which of course requires that MACHINE is set to something
> specific, in this case qemux86. As u-boot is disabled there, it gets
> skipped. I could special-case u-boot, but I do think it's better to
> enable it on qemu, which would also allow better AB testing across
> architectures and during runtime (booting images) for instance.

Let's see how this works:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/915781/

Once this gets mainline, we should then be able to enable u-boot for
qemux86/qemux86-64 . I have a patch ready for that too, but let's wait
until the U-Boot patch discussion is over.

-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut