From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 07:21:57 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] configs: add defconfig for TS-4900 In-Reply-To: <017033a8-afa4-5b74-3d69-99b2bcefbbb9@mind.be> References: <1474143804-19181-1-git-send-email-mathieu.audat@savoirfairelinux.com> <1474143804-19181-3-git-send-email-mathieu.audat@savoirfairelinux.com> <20160918171032.2ee45abd@free-electrons.com> <017033a8-afa4-5b74-3d69-99b2bcefbbb9@mind.be> Message-ID: <20160922072157.547f1747@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 Wed, 21 Sep 2016 22:35:35 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > As discussed in v1 of this patch, the problem is that this is a defconfig for a > module. Several hardware revisions of this module exist with different DDR > chips, which require a different U-Boot config. So we'd need several buildroot > defconfigs for the different module revisions. And it's not easy to distinguish > between them. > > In addition, recovery through USB requires a specific baseboard that sets the > boot mode pins in a way that you actually boot from USB. Not everybody necessary > has this baseboard. > > For these reasons, I agreed with Mathieu that it was OK to skip the bootloader. OK, fine with me. Thanks for the explanation! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com