Re: [PATCH v1] Cyclone V Board handsoff script

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

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On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 05:31:25AM +0800, Sune Brian wrote:
> > No, this is a build script that is a must and also required on every
> > clean build.
> 
> Let me elaborate a bit more.
> According to the current U-Boot folder:
> board/altera/cyclone5-socdk/qts
> board/altera/arria5-socdk
> board/altera/arria10-socdk
> 
> All these board folder files are not sure and high change to be stall.
> As the deconfig boards are not only official Altera board.
> As such [1] is a prerequisite to build U-Boot.
> 
> So unless there are handoff changes until the EOL of 2030.
> These scripts are highly required on U-Boot, unless U-Boot
> plan to remove Altera SoCFPGA from the ARM support list.
> 
> Brian
> 
> [1] https://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/BuildingBootloaderCycloneVAndArria10#Prerequisites

That's interesting. But that also does mean that someone needs to work
better with upstream about integration here as no, that's not where that
kind of tooling should live. At bare minimum it should be in
tools/something/ and have it's own requirements.txt file too for
whatever python modules it requires.

-- 
Tom

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