Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] configs/beaglev_fire: add support for BeagleV Fire

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello Jamie,

On Wed, 22 May 2024 16:06:54 +0000
<Jamie.Gibbons@microchip.com> wrote:

> > Nowadays, we try to use distro bootcmd instead of custom uBoot
> > environment scripts. See
> > https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/blob/v2024.04/doc/develop/distro.rst
> > for some details.  
> 
> Could you clarify the change you are looking for here? We do use distro
> bootcmd (#include <config_distro_bootcmd.h> in our U-Boot config). This
> scans for our boot.scr, which as far as I can see is supported under
> that link you sent. Are you asking for us to replace the boot.scr with
> extlinux.conf? I can see other boards use "extlinux.conf" or
> "boot.cmd". Our preference is to use "boot.cmd" as this allows us to
> use FITImage and FDT set. Could you clarify your request?

Yes, we ideally like new defconfigs to use extlinux.conf when possible.
One motivation is precisely that boot script tend to do random hacks
that are not very nice. That's not a strong requirement though, more of
a "nice to have".

> > > +BR2_PACKAGE_BASH=y  
> > 
> > Why?  
> The above four packages were used to support the gateware scripts.
> These will likely be removed for v2 due to the changes in those
> scripts.

I suppose such scripts don't really require bash, the Busybox shell
should be more than enough.

Thanks!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
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