[OE-core] [PATCH] u-boot: Add mkenvimage tool

Alexey Brodkin alexey.brodkin at synopsys.com
Thu Nov 15 10:32:10 UTC 2018


Hi Martin,

On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 10:27 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 05:15:03AM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > Hi Marek,

[snip]

> > > Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> > > 
> > > That said, could the recipe for mkimage and mkenvimage be somehow
> > > deduplicated ? There seems to be a lot of common stuff.
> > 
> > I'd say why don't we just have one recipe for all U-Boot tools
> > instead of adding tools one-by-one?
> 
> Or add:
>     install -m 0755 tools/mkenvimage ${D}${bindir}/uboot-mkenvimage
>     ln -sf uboot-mkenvimage ${D}${bindir}/mkenvimage
> 
> to existing u-boot-mkimage recipe, that's what I'm doing in
> u-boot-mkimage bbappend.

Sure and indeed that was my initial intention but then I noticed
there're separate recipes for mkimage and fw-utils and decided
to act similarly.

If OE people is fine with addition of another (pretty similar ideologically)
utility in u-boot-mkimage_xx.bb then I'm happy to implement it that way.

-Alexey


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