[oe] RFC: Renaming uboot-utils
Rod Whitby
rod at whitby.id.au
Mon Dec 17 21:25:21 UTC 2007
Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Monday, December 17, 2007, 4:24:21 PM, you wrote:
>> Perhaps the MACHINE|DISTRO_FEATURES uboot should just
>> go away? It was only needed to make the native mkimage program,
>> which really should be a kernel DEPENDS anyway. Sound
>> reasonable?
>
> Let's hear Rod Whitby speak up, AFAIR, he added those features. But
> as far as I understand, no, they should be there, and are the way to
> add a particular bootloader support to *any* distro. Have a look at
> apex and redboot support at the same place. So, if you say that your
> machine has u-boot as bootloader, you'll get utils to manage it in the
> image. Ditto for other bootloaders.
Actually, I think NAiL added the uboot machine feature. I only looked
at the uboot and redboot ones that were already there and added apex.
-- Rod
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