[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 1/4] imx-mkimage: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 19:46:34 +0100, Erik Larsson wrote:

> > I'm not a big fan of the fact that this host package not does not
> > install any host tool, but instead post-processes images created by
> > other packages.
> >
> > Would it be possible for this package to just install host tools, and
> > then have a post-image script that uses these host tools to provide the
> > final flash.bin image ?  
> 
> This first version if this patch-serie did sort of that. It build and
> installed host tools. And then they were used in post-image.sh. But
> after a comments/suggestion from Baruch I got encouraged do it this
> way. This solution is much clearer when reading the code then the
> first version, but maybe with the drawback of this host-package not
> really being a host-package as you stated. If you compare this
> solution with the first you will see that there is a pretty convoluted
> solution for doing parts that are in the Makefile och imx-mkimage. The
> main problem here may be the fact that NXP put stuff in there Makefile
> that rally doesn't have anything with the creation of the tool.

I think I really prefer the approach where the imx-mkimage package only
installs a host tool, and then a post-image script that uses the host
tool installed by imx-mkimage to post-process the images, and generate
the final bootloader.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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