From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:50:13 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4 0/7] Support building a second Barebox config (incl. BBB) In-Reply-To: References: <1458513351-6556-1-git-send-email-pieter@boesman.nl> <20160419212441.6a0454e9@free-electrons.com> <20160419201733.GA19934@smipidev> <20160420164216.GA26814@smipidev> <20160421132905.7c271814@free-electrons.com> <20160423130141.GB10355@smipidev> <20160423151129.479c5f03@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20160423165013.10739b58@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, 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com