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

[Philip Balister]

The u-boot web page is http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot so I 
suggest we standardize on u-boot. Also the tarballs are u-boot-....

I also like your suggesting for installing mkimage.

Philip



Koen Kooi wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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}
> 
> what do you think about all this?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen
> 
> CC: to Harald because I'm not sure he's on oe-devel
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin)
> 
> iD8DBQFF1fFPMkyGM64RGpERAsM2AKCo48tTjyY1DPoTYDp/41E8sOOMTQCeO8T8
> urHBB7VH79uq3fyR/9jBzk4=
> =E7Ei
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Openembedded-devel mailing list
> Openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
> 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 3303 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/attachments/20070216/28648280/attachment-0002.bin>