From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:03:24 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] at91bootstrap3: new package In-Reply-To: <1345192583-5115-1-git-send-email-spdawson@gmail.com> References: <1345192583-5115-1-git-send-email-spdawson@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20120817180324.23f1e328@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:36:23 +0100, spdawson at gmail.com a ?crit : > From: Simon Dawson > > Note that this new package, at91bootstrap3, is being added alongside the > existing at91bootstrap. This was suggested by Thomas Petazzoni, whose > comments on the mailing list are quoted below. > > For this package, I am not sure we can do a simple version bump. Since > there is (was?) no upstream for AT91Bootstrap 1.x, many > vendors/companies had to maintain their patches on top of AT91Bootstrap > 1.x. See for example > board/calao/usb-a9263/at91bootstrap-1.16-usb-a9263.patch. Therefore, > removing AT91Bootstrap 1.x from the tree will prevent those platforms > to work. I know people should upgrade, but AT91Bootstrap 3.x is quite > significantly different, so the porting effort is not that simple. > > Therefore, I'm wondering whether we should kee at91bootstrap as it is, > and create a separate package at91bootstrap3 for the 3.x generation. > > Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson > Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Applied to next, thanks. Later on, we may want to add an at91bootstrap3-menuconfig target, like we have for Barebox/Linux so that users can tune the configuration easily. But that can be done later. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com