From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 09:34:08 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v6] Add defconfig for MIPS Creator ci40 In-Reply-To: References: <1491306498-18165-1-git-send-email-abhimanyu.v@gmail.com> <20170404221332.342b1fd7@free-electrons.com> <20170405092900.30b8cd96@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20170405093408.6874bd00@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 13:01:45 +0530, abhimanyu.v at gmail.com wrote: > I think it was mostly from the point that /tmp are usually temporary mount > and they are always writable. I dont think there is any reason other than > that, user can download to any writable FS or use usb-drive. > I am trying to give some direction. Do you have suggestion to reword it? Ideally, the bootloader image should be part of the filesystem image, so it's easy for users to reflash their bootloader. But there's no easy way to do that. So just say that there is a bootloader image in output/images/, and it can be used on the target to reflash the bootloader, and give the command line. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com