Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH 3/4] linux-cfa: add a kernel recipe supporting Crystalfontz boards

["Eric Bénard" <eric@eukrea.com>]

Hi Alexandre,

Le Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:27:43 +0200,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> a écrit :

> On 22/08/2013 19:19, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >
> >>> What it does different here than original linux-dtb alternatives?
> >>>
> >> Actually, the default environment present in the barebox mainline for
> >> the cfa10036 is looking for a kernel named zImage-cfa10036 and DTBs
> >> named oftree-${DTB_BOARD_NAME} in /boot. So I'm just creating more links
> >> to the kernel and DTBs. I'm not doing anything differently, I'm just
> >> creating more links.
> > I'd patch the default environment so we avoid custom behaviour from
> > other boards. Do you mind?
> >
> Hum, I'm not sure about that, that would mean that we would have a
> different behaviour between the buildroot generated image and the yocto
> generated image which is not so great from a customer support point of view.
> Also oftree is the usual name for dtbs in barebox, I'd like to stick to
> it. That is just a bunch of links and that part will stay in the
> crystalfontz specific kernel recipe anyway, does it matter that much ?
> 
fully agreed, that's a custom recipe for a custom board so I don't see
how you can get "custom behaviour from other boards".

Eric