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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:59:07 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] targets: move target options to their own
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Thomas, All,

On 2013-08-16 12:30 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire spake thusly:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire
> <patrickdepinguin+buildroot@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> >> Thomas, Arnout, All,
> >>
> >> On Friday 16 August 2013 08:30:43 Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> wrote:
> >>> > On 15/08/13 22:28, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >>> >>
> >> I would even put the kernel before the packages, and bootloaders before
> >> kernel. Ie. I'd use the boot-time order of things:
> >>     (Target options)
> >>     Build options
> >>     Toolchain
> >>     System configuration
> >>     Bootloaders
> >>     Kernel
> >>     Packages selection
> >>     Filesystem images
> >>     Host Utilities
> >>     Legacy config options
> >>
> >> Bizzarely enough, moving bootloaders before kernel seems odd... :-/
> >
> >
> > I can follow this boot-time order strategy, but I concur with the
> > bootloader oddity.
> 
> [sorry, accidentally hit send button]
> 
> Here is a slightly different viewpoint: some users will never touch
> the bootloader. However, creating a kernel and rootfs (possibly
> attached to the kernel) is very common. This can result in the
> following order:
> 
> (Target options)
> Build options
> Toolchain
> System configuration
> Kernel
> Package selection for the target
> Filesystem images
> Bootloaders
> Host Utilities
> Legacy config options

Hey! It looks good to me! :-)
I'll handle this. Thanks!

> By the way: isn't it more logical to put 'Bootloaders' in singular
> (Bootloader), since one typically builds only one bootloader, just as
> one only builds one kernel...

This is two-sided:
  - either you consider what Buildroot has to offer: one kernel, and
    multiple bootloaders;
  - or you consider what the user may want to install on the targe, at
    most one kernel, and at most one bootloader.

I prefer the first option. If at some point in the future Buildroot gets
support for alternative kernels (GNU/Hurd, someone? ;-) ), then we'd
have to s/Kernel/Kernels/.

Consequently, "Package selection for the target" should be a plural
"Packages selection for target".

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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