From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:24:29 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 9/9] manual: rework Deploying images chapter In-Reply-To: References: <52546B18.7010207@mind.be> Message-ID: <52600F3D.6020401@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 17/10/13 10:40, Samuel Martin wrote: > Arnout, > > > 2013/10/8 Arnout Vandecappelle > > > On 10/05/13 21:49, Samuel Martin wrote: > > [...] > > + > +[WARNING] > +Be careful, *the _board's_ readme files coming within Buildroot are > +provided without warranty of any kind*. > +They are contributions from Buildroot users, but Buildroot > developers > +do not ensure their correctness, nor maintain them. > > > Is this warning really necessary? Most readme.txt files use > removable media (or emulation), and the few that do write to flash > have warnings already. The only exception is the Telit EVK-PRO3, so > maybe we should just add a warning there. > > Well, the few boards we are talking about here are: > - Telit EVK-PRO3 > - avnet s6lx9_microboard > - freescale mpc8315erdb > - freescale p1010rdb > For the 2 later, there is a warning about the bootloader in the > readme.txt files, > for the 2 others, it is not so obvious... For the s6lx9 the danger isn't so big because you don't overwrite the bootloader. > > Anyway, I don't mind adding the warning in the readme files. > Having it close to the flashing instruction makes sense; > having it in the documentation (as a genreric warning) makes sense too imho. I just don't like scaring people off... But I guess the warning doesn't really hurt. Regards, Arnout > > Regards, > > -- > Samuel -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F