[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 0/7] Support building a second Barebox config (incl. BBB)

[Pieter Smith <pieter@boesman.nl>]

Hi Thomas,

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:16:53AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 10:04:07 +0200, Pieter Smith wrote:
> 
> > I will post the patch series including the beaglebone_barebox_defconfig. This
> > will at least illustrate usage, even if it only lives in the mailing archives.
> > Should it be required: The buildroot maintainers have my permission to merge
> > only a sub-set of the patch-series. I do not object to this, and I will make it
> > clear in the summary.
> 
> It is in any case very useful to include a defconfig in the series to
> ease testing. Another possibility is to include the defconfig used for
> testing inside one of the commit log, so that it remains part of the
> Git history, and easily available if one looks at the Git commits
> touching the barebox package.

Augment the last message in the series with the defconfig? Easy enough. Will be
in v5. Or would you like something fancy (E.g. empty commit)?

> > > My grand plan is to promote something like
> > > https://github.com/tpetazzoni/buildroot-runtime-test in order to
> > > collect test cases (both build-time tests and runtime tests).
> > 
> > Promising. I will remember to have a look at it in a few weeks.
> 
> Well, don't hold your breath: I haven't touched it for months :/
> 
> Thomas
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> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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