Re: [poky] [PATCH 0/3] U-boot recipe for most recent stable release.

From: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>, poky@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [poky] [PATCH 0/3] U-boot recipe for most recent stable release.
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:16:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F283E15.3020204@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F28343A.8070501@linux.intel.com>

On 01/31/2012 10:34 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 01/31/2012 09:42 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> On 12-01-31 11:54 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
>>> On 01/27/2012 08:21 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>>>> This adds a recipe for U-Boot v2011.12.  In doing so, some of
>>>> non-shareable settings were moved out of u-boot.inc and others
>>>> moved in.
>>>>
>>>> The recipe was tested on an mpc8315 Yocto configuration.
>>>>
>>>> Paul Gortmaker (3):
>>>>     u-boot: Don't make the -Os removal part of global settings.
>>>>     u-boot: make FILESDIR a shared setting.
>>>>     u-boot: Add recipe for u-boot v2011.12
>>>>
>>>>    meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc        |    4 +---
>>>>    meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot_2011.03.bb |    3 ++-
>>>>    meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot_2011.06.bb |    3 ++-
>>>>    meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot_2011.12.bb |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>    4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>    create mode 100644 meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot_2011.12.bb
>>>>
>>>
>>> What about the u-boot-mkimage recipe, does that also need to be updated?
>>
>> It could be, but it strictly doesn't have to be.  I'd say that
>> mkimage is a tool akin to something like tar -- i.e. you can build
>> whatever version you want, but its functionality isn't going
>> to really change often from one release to the next.
>>
>> If you want it updated, I can send a follow on patch to do
>> that.  What do you guys usually do with the old recipes, leave
>> them laying around, or STONITH?
>>
> Adding openembedded-core since that is really where patches to meta 
> should go.
> 
> u-boot seems to be a special beast since we keep the older recipes 
> around for u-boot itself, are they are compatibility issues with going 
> to the latest u-boot-mkimage and older u-boot itself?
> 
> Comments from the u-boot users?  Do we need to keep the older u-boot or 
> u-boot-mkimage around, or should the move to BSP/layers that need the 
> compatibility of the older version?

We should keep N and N-1 uboot versions around. This gives users time to
ensure their BSP works. After that, if new u-boot cannot be made to work
with a given BSP, then that BSP layer should include their own version
of a u-boot recipe in the layer's recipes-bsp/u-boot.

--
Darren

> 
> Thanks
> 	Sau!
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Paul.
>>
>>>
>>> Sau!
>>
> 
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Darren Hart
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