[oe] ipkg/opkg offical response

[Koen Kooi]

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Richard Purdie schreef:
| On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 01:30 +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
|> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Tom Rini
<trini at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
|>>  I'll ask the silly qustion.  Given that mkimage hasn't changed in I
|>>  don't know how long, why are both providing it?  Just to save on
sources
|>>  downloaded?  Did OM really change mkimage?
|>>
|> Good question, thanks for asking!
|>
|> In fact, I have seen some of the kernel recipes seen switching between
|> openmoko's and non-openmoko u-boot-tools, with and without breakage in
|> the past.
|>
|> Could the openmoko guys please describe what grants their version to
exist? :-)
|
| As far as I know, the mkimage tool hasn't changed in a long time so we
| should be able to share one common version.

The only difference is the number of archs it supports, IIRC bfin and
avr32 may require $vendor mkimage since upstream doesn't support those
yet (again, IIRC).

| Using a simpler recipe kind
| of makes sense but I'll let the openmoko people answer.

The openmoko people have very little to do with openmoko-mkimage, they
try to remove it every now and then and I yell at them for that :) I
created that since _all_ existing uboot recipes were either machine
specific or plain broken. So I created a frozen openmoko-mkimage (all
patches are in OE, SRC_URI fixed to certain rev, etc) that is known to
work and doesn't break.

So if the (new) mkimage-native recipe is generic and non-broken, we
should switch to that.

| One way forward might be to DEPEND on virtual/mkimage-native. The
| various uboot providers can then PROVIDE this and it becomes distro
| policy which one is selected?

If someone spends some time to teach mkimage about avr32 (might already
be upstream) there shouldn't be a need for virtual/mkimage-native IMO.

regards,

Koen

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