From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-yh0-f51.google.com (mail-yh0-f51.google.com [209.85.213.51]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B31B1E00884 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:54:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-yh0-f51.google.com with SMTP id l109so2488935yhq.10 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:54:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=D0wz30o/EZTlRfYT1VF4GzGEyBzGzkMItyEH7sem+/Q=; b=QopogRlq48ZC8Z0hkWL9NmIGCx7m9RWe89p3s3OdxBnrKnfSTACFhukd+l374BG5ak p4NpfHCK6c7pvbF/Amsemn9FI4+mygKBNZyeTIri3rCa2ZtlOW1bQyjgByneE3iUULBY +2wS5KaCfKCB6zHn+72nHUxxlD8wRwEI8vGXqKRvWtfzBEMYVHVVT8pzCVVUUt7GsztC uIlBFy+GrYd1FSJDD513LR/UHKca15vIEog5VXHdkYJU6GqfYHNaEJEuZB71fg4Nuo/Y R7SJgCEO8HfYirUJvSS+yCujcHcf1Z5oDIY17yejmt6C0P6MdH9zLej9/fMXjsT8bCVI 4KDg== X-Received: by 10.236.61.136 with SMTP id w8mr19263742yhc.14.1390247668949; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:54:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from goober.local ([75.76.20.151]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f78sm5241761yhp.12.2014.01.20.11.54.28 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:54:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52DD7EF3.6080504@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:54:27 -0600 From: John Weber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org References: <52DCF67C.6030503@pseudoterminal.org> <52DD2EB0.5030208@freescale.com> <52DD3586.8090103@pseudoterminal.org> <52DD39FD.9090406@freescale.com> <52DD5F7C.2020109@pseudoterminal.org> In-Reply-To: <52DD5F7C.2020109@pseudoterminal.org> Subject: Re: About customizing the image_types_fsl class X-BeenThere: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Usage and development list for the meta-fsl-* layers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:54:37 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 1/20/14 11:40 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote: > On 2014-01-20 16:00, Daiane Angolini wrote: >> >> As I know it's supposed to be released today/tomorrow >> > > Just had a discussion with developers working on Cubox-I support. They tried > to push MXC SPL support for the CuBox-i upstream, didn't work out so far. > Otavio suggested to use mainline without SPL for now, but I am skeptical about > it. SPL is a very nice feature, it allows me to use the exact same > installation for several Cubox-i machines. > > The way I see it, there are two options for me: > 1) Use the u-boot fork with MXC SPL support for now, until mainline supports > MXC SPL. Then immediately switch to mainline by applying a patch to > meta-fsl-arm-extra. > 2) Use mainline without SPL, and live with the fact that I need a build for > every single CuBox-i machine. > > I personally favor (1), especially since it is already fully working for me. I > could send the patches to the mailing list after a little cleanup. You seem to > favor (2), since mainline is usually a better choice than some odd fork (I > agree on this in principle, but in this case, I favor the fork). > Other boards are making use of this. The guys at Wandboard worked on it so that they could release a single image for all variants. Why not add it to the default sdcard creation script and then make it enabled/disabled either at the machine level or cause it to be automatically selected by the SPL recipe?