[OE-core] [PATCH V2] u-boot-fw-utils: Add support for libubootenv

Adrian Bunk bunk at stusta.de
Thu Jan 2 18:30:34 UTC 2020


On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 06:52:06PM +0100, Stefano Babic wrote:
> libubootenv is a replacement for u-boot-fw-utils. It is
> hardware-independent and provides fw_printenv and fw_setenv tools that
> are full compatible with the ones provided by U-Boot. A library is
> provided to access the environment from an own application.
> License is LGPL-2.1 and this allow to link the library to proprietary
> code. The user of the tools should install the configuration file
> "fw_env.config", as he is already used to with u-boot-fw-utils. The
> configuration file is compatible with u-boot-fw-utils.
>...

Why do we need two implementations of the same in OE-core?
meta-oe sounds more appropriate to me.

cu
Adrian


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