From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:58:00 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package: add Odroid BL bootloader binaries In-Reply-To: <20160627155236.GI424@jack.zhora.eu> References: <1466950062-31783-1-git-send-email-andi@etezian.org> <1466950062-31783-2-git-send-email-andi@etezian.org> <20160626221048.02818b93@free-electrons.com> <20160627155236.GI424@jack.zhora.eu> Message-ID: <20160630095800.7288a44b@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 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:52:36 +0900, Andi Shyti wrote: > It is indeed annoying: I don't like the idea of > > 1. downloading two u-boot > 2. download u-boot for just two files. > > But, on the other hand, I don't like the hardkernel u-boot > either. I think it's old, ugly and too hacky; as a buildroot > user, I would like as much as I can to use mainline software. > Besides, the cool thing of this board is that it is well > supported both from the Linux Kernel and u-boot. OK. Indeed, I can understand the value of using a mainline U-Boot, even if you have to use the binary blobs for the first stage bootloader. > How about creating a new repository with just these three files? > If it sounds good, I will check with the licensing, even though I > don't thing it will be a problem. No, we generally don't like to create repositories just for Buildroot. So please keep your new package, possibly with an explanation in the Config.in help text as to why it exists (kind of summarizing the discussion we had). Thanks a lot! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com