[U-Boot-Users] Proposal for a make option to include an additional stand alone program directory

[Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>]

Jeff Mann wrote:
> U-Boot Users:
> 
> I want to add a featue to the makefile configuration so that a user can
> compile u-boot including a directory that gets compiled as a stand alone
> program. I propose that users can enter a directory when configuring the
> board, for example
> 
> make BOARD_config SA=my_stand_alone_prog_dir

I like this idea, but can't you already do this in the Makefile, but just adding stuff to 
the rule for BOARD_config?

For the MPC8349E-mITX, Freescale's BSP ships with a closed-source binary firmware for the 
5-port Ethernet switch.  It would be great if the denx.de version of U-Boot could 
automatically add support for this binary if it existed in the development tree.  The idea 
would be that u-boot.bin would include this binary.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale