[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 15/15] configs: nitrogen*: bump u-boot version to 2017.07

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 20:07:24 +0100, Gary Bisson wrote:

> I understand although as it is said in the commit log, the previous
> scripts will be removed in a future release.

OK.

> As for where those scripts are located, we actually have them in our
> U-Boot repo now:
> https://github.com/boundarydevices/u-boot-imx6/tree/boundary-v2017.07/board/boundary/bootscripts
> 
> That is how it is used in Yocto. I don't mind using it from U-Boot
> directly, but what's the best way to do so? Is there a bootloader
> equivalent to LINUX_DIR so I can easily point to the bootloader
> source?

Well LINUX_DIR is a standard package variable. So for every package
<pkg>_DIR exists and points to its source directory :)

> Also, would you guys be ok with a
> BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BOOT_SCRIPT_INSTALL_TARGET option? That would reduce
> the post-build script for several configs which copies it manually to
> TARGET_DIR/boot/ right now.

I'm not sure what would be the benefit here. You see to propose to
replace one post-build script by one post-uboot-install-script. What's
the benefit?

Thomas
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