[OE-core] [PATCH v7] u-boot: Add mkenvimage tool

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Alexey,

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 7:30 PM Alexey Brodkin
<alexey.brodkin at synopsys.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-11-24 at 06:57 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> >
> > http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/202185/
>
> Looking at the target name "u-boot-tools-1_2018.11-r0 do_compile"
> I think it might have something to do with bump of U-Boot to v2018.11
> and the error message in question was added in v2018.11-rc1,
> see http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=a4958a71017fb142542f977c843c5fce769fc6ea
>
> The problem is we use "sandbox_defconfig" as a dummy defconfig
> because otherwise (not configured) U-Boot's build-system won't
> allow us to proceed and in its turn mentioned patch adds a check
> for a target platform like "if defined(__x86_64__)" which
> we essentially don't satisfy and so we fail.
>
> There're the following solutions:
>  1. Revert mentioned patch
>  2. Disable "CONFIG_EFI_LOADER"
>
> Reverting is not nice and not future-proof.
> Disabling of "CONFIG_EFI_LOADER" might be done in a couple of ways
> like:
>  1. Patching sandbox_defconfig
>  2. Filtering "CONFIG_EFI_LOADER" from "sandbox_defconfig" right before
>     execution of "make sandbox_defconfig"
>
> I think latter option is the simplest and cleanest.
>
> Should I send a patch for that?

Let's add Tom (U-Boot upstream main maintainer) to this so he can comment.

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