From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:55:51 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] imx-mkimage: new package In-Reply-To: <20180219164406.GA22465@t450s.lan> References: <1518960511-4823-1-git-send-email-karl.erik.larsson@gmail.com> <1518960511-4823-2-git-send-email-karl.erik.larsson@gmail.com> <20180218155100.3e4e090f@windsurf> <20180219164406.GA22465@t450s.lan> Message-ID: <20180219175551.761f4da4@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:44:06 +0100, Gary Bisson wrote: > > I'm not sure this package needs to be under package/freescale-imx/. > > This sub-directory was initially created to share the > > FREESCALE_IMX_SITE and FREESCALE_IMX_EXTRACT_HELPER definitions, but > > you don't use them. > > Actually there are plenty of packages in that folder that don't need the > extract helper nor the site address. Would you like those moved out of > it? (imx-kobs, imx-uuc, imx-vpuwrap etc..). I don't have a very clear cut opinion about this. If they don't need to be in package/freescale-imx/, then in theory they should be outside yes. > Another aspect of that folder is BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM, > although it is accessible at other places, which has an effect on which > packages are available. Yeah, but that's just Config.in values, which are available to all packages without problem. > > Why are you building just the tool in iMX8M ? There is also one in src/ > > and in iMX8dv. What are the differences ? Should we build/install all > > of them ? Conditionally ? > > That is where new BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM values would be > needed to separate iMX8M, iMX8QM and iMX8QX. > > As a FYI, iMX8dv was some sort of development version of i.MX8, this > will not be supported moving forward, only the 3 families listed above. OK, thanks for the info! Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://bootlin.com