From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Jesse T <mr.bossman075@gmail.com>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>,
maeva.manuel@oss.nxp.com, stephane.viau@oss.nxp.com,
buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] configs/imxrt1050-evk: New defconfig
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 09:46:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220802094616.2a60881c@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFTR8SkMjAe1=V411g9BmdzYDZv+5mtLMQ29w=2BJj4LS1sWw@mail.gmail.com>
Hello Jesse,
On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 17:46:48 -0400
Jesse T <mr.bossman075@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any reason to add Giulio here?
>
> We worked on Linux and U-Boot together.
Then I think it is worth mentioning in the commit log, as it is
surprising to see two people added in the DEVELOPERS file, without any
explanation.
> > Why is this test needed? The Image file will be produced by the kernel
> > build, so it should be there. If it's not, we should really error out
> > hard. So I think doing without the test is better.
>
> I was using board/nexbox/a95x/post-build.sh as a base, I can drop it.
Yes, I think this test doesn't make sense, so you can drop it.
> > > +# Filesystem
> > > +BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2=y
> > > +BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_4=y
> > > +BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_LABEL="root"
> > > +BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SIZE="3M"
> >
> > Why limit to 3 MB ? Is there a strong reason?
>
> Because that's the nearest ceil(MB) size of the ext4 filesystem.
> I like dd-ing the images fast.
You can use bmap-tools to speed up writing a SD card image that is
large but mostly empty.
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20220712110023.3163770-1-andre.przywara@arm.com/
>
> The patch above removes the need for binutils 2.36 and a U-Boot
> version hasn't been released with that commit yet.
> This is the reason for no U-Boot version.
As explained by Giulio, you should use a well-defined version of
U-Boot, and backport the U-Boot patch.
Thanks a lot!
Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-30 6:12 [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] configs/imxrt1050-evk: New defconfig Jesse Taube
2022-08-01 20:50 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2022-08-01 21:46 ` Jesse T
2022-08-01 22:05 ` Giulio Benetti
2022-08-01 23:18 ` Giulio Benetti
2022-08-02 7:46 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
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