[Buildroot] [PATCH] uboot-tools: Allow users to use uboot's sources

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:02:56 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> >  Actually, I don't even see the need to ask the user anything. If we are
> building U-Boot, I don't see why we would ever want to use the U-Boot tools
> from upstream - that just adds a risk of incompatibility between the two.
> >
> >  So I would propose to remove the BR2_PACKAGE_UBOOT_TOOLS_UBOOT_SOURCE
> option, and instead make it conditional on BR2_TARGET_UBOOT.
> 
> I don't agree here. Real life example: we are using vendor-provided uboot,
> and want to set an env-image in our flash devices' factory image. While
> this version of uboot clearly supports handling the env at a specified
> location, it does not (yet) provide the mkenvimage tool.
> In this case, we actually want a more recent uboot tools package that does
> have mkenvimage. My conclusion is thus that we should provide the choice.

Then maybe you should just patch your vendor U-Boot to add mkenvimage,
and that's it? :-)

Thomas
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