From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 17:22:08 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/14] Add support for U-Boots Kbuild & Kconfig build system In-Reply-To: <20141221234006.311fcde0@free-electrons.com> References: <1418426171-3483-1-git-send-email-jkrause@posteo.de> <20141221234006.311fcde0@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20150102172208.7a2ef5f1@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello J?rg, On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:40:06 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Thanks for working on this, definitely good to see someone tackling the > bump to the first kconfig-enabled U-Boot version. > > There is however one big issue with your patch series: I believe it > breaks backward compatibility with U-Boot versions older than 2014.10. > And a *lot* of people are using old versions of U-Boot, to which they > are stuck due to the old version being their only choice for a given > piece of hardware. > > So we clearly need to continue to support older versions of U-Boot, > that don't have the kconfig stuff. I just gave a try, and it seems like > the old U-Boot way of configuring/building things apparently still > works with U-Boot 2014.10. So your PATCH 01/14 is probably OK. However > starting from 02/14, I believe you'll be breaking things for U-Boot > versions older than 2014.10. > > Can you work on a solution that preserves compatibility? Since I had no feedback about this (probably due to the winter holidays), I'll mark those patches as "Changes Requested" in patchwork. Can you resend a new version that takes into account the need for backward compatibility with older versions of U-Boot? Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com