From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:00:59 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [git commit] boot: only show vendor-specific bootloaders for applicable arm variant In-Reply-To: <87ipjp9ql2.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <20120201224701.C13259097B@busybox.osuosl.org> <20120202164743.30dfab12@skate> <87ipjp9ql2.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20120202170059.42c7b05e@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:56:25 +0100, Peter Korsgaard a ?crit : > True. Is that a common use case? If so then I'll revert. I don't know if it's a common use case. But I would suspect that many newcomers do not necessarily select the right sub-architecture. But I don't have a strong opinion with your regard to your patch. I just think that people may not discover that those bootloaders are available in Buildroot. However, as discussed on IRC, we might see an increase of platform-specific packages (3D drivers and libraries, codecs and DSP stuff, etc.), so maybe we'll need some way of selecting the platform in order to show only the relevant packages? Or maybe simply by organizing the packages like: Platform specific packages -> Texas Instruments OMAP packages -> Freescale i.MX packages -> ... Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com