[OE-core] [PATCH v3] u-boot: Add mkenvimage tool

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 5:08 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 01:51:41PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On 11/19/2018 11:04 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > > This utility is used for creation of images containing
> > > usable in run-time U-Boot environment.
> > >
> > > As of today this utility is added per-board like here [1]
> > > for Intel Edison board.
> > >
> > > [1] http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel-edison/tree/meta-intel-edison-bsp/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-tools_2014.04.bb
> > >
> > > Given there're quite some U-Boot tools that we may want to add later
> > > this recipe name switch from "u-boot-mkimage" to generic "u-boot-tools"
> > > still for compatibility we provide "u-boot-mkimage" with help
> > > of PROVIDES as well as proposed "u-boot-mkenvimage".
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
> > > Cc: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> > > Cc: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
> > > Cc: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
> > > Cc: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> >
> > Do we want to generate one package per tool or not ?
>
> I think so, yes.  Not all places will want all tools.

And a bonus to add a u-boot-tools-meta which rdepends on all. You can
copy code to do that from gstreamer-plugins packages.

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