[oe] RFC: making uboot safe for multimachine and agree on one spelling

[Harald Welte]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:00:47PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
 
> After spending some time going trough u-boot recipes trying to make sense of its
> buildsystem, I noticed some strange problems and inconsistencies.
> 
> First the easy part: we need *one* spelling for u-boot, instead of uboot, u-boot, u-bot,
> etc. What is the preferred one nowadays?

u-boot is the official name, so I would recommend to go for that (even
though I hate hyphens inside project names)

> Second: it seems that the 'mkimage' tool is at least arch speficic (at worst
> board-specific), so uboot recipes should install it to
> ${STAGING_NATIVE_DIR}/mkimage.u-boot.${MACHINE_ARCH}

are you sure it's arch specific?  I'm quite surprised about that, since
the uImage format contains a header indicating the architecture, doesn't
it?

If it really uses a different binary format for each arch, yes, we
should change it.  'mkuimage.${MACHINE_ARCH}' sounds like a more user
friendly name, though.

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