From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Heidelberg Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:08:17 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] u-boot: add config option to disable general patches In-Reply-To: <87y6xkpx5m.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <200811140854.58814.markus.heidelberg@web.de> <200901081917.16406.markus.heidelberg@web.de> <87y6xkpx5m.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <200901091608.17923.markus.heidelberg@web.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Peter Korsgaard, 09.01.2009: > >>>>> "Markus" == Markus Heidelberg writes: > > Hi, > > Markus> It's the same as with the Linux kernel: you wouldn't like > Markus> patches lying around in Buildroot, which you can't disable > Markus> and always get applied. > > I've been pondering about adding a bit of flexibility to the packages > that often need platform specific handling > (E.G. Linux/U-Boot). Building upstream versions of those rarely make > sense for custom boards, so having the option to apply custom patches Which is available, but only in addition to the general patches lying around. > or grabbing the entire tree from other version control system seems > sensible. Yes, that would be a possible alternative. > Grant Likely once sent a patch series adding support for using other > git trees to the kernel build, that I still need to look into. I just had a look at it. Some sort of checking for newer commits and then updating the cloned tree would be nice. Markus