[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 0/7] Support building a second Barebox config (incl. BBB)

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

Hello,

On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 14:35:22 +0000, Pieter Smith wrote:

> As I already voiced, I would like to have the defconfig in as a
> usage example.

Well, what you want and what the Buildroot maintainer/core developers
want may be different :-)

My opinion is that there is no point is having gazillions of different
defconfigs for the same board. Your focus is on Barebox, but then the
next developer will want a defconfig for BeagleBone+Qt5, the next one
for BeagleBone+Wayland, the next one for BeagleBone+Kodi, the next one
for BeagleBone as a toaster controller, etc, etc. As you can see, it's
going to be an endless list of unmaintainable defconfigs, so we have to
cut the line somewhere.

And IMO, having a defconfig whose only difference from the
beaglebone_defconfig is to use Barebox instead of U-Boot is not a
useful defconfig.

It would however be useful in a "testing" framework so that we can
validate automatically that the dual Barebox functionality continues to
work over time.

> I also find the BBB with barebox much easier to play with. It
> boots faster and is much easier to script.

That's very subjective, and the default/defacto standard on BeagleBone
remains U-Boot (no matter how much I would prefer Barebox to become
more popular).

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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