From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: Titouan Christophe <titouan.christophe@mind.be>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org, git@jdknight.me,
thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, arnout@rnout.be,
thomas.perale@mind.be, ju.o@free.fr
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] linux: always select host-uboot-tools for mips
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:30:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875wz8e7wv.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261010201508.963412-2-titouan.christophe@mind.be> (Titouan Christophe's message of "Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:15:06 +0200")
>>>>> "Titouan" == Titouan Christophe <titouan.christophe@mind.be> writes:
> Since Buildroot commit 40e266ccb9 [1], host-uboot-tools was always selected
> for the latest Linux kernel. This change is intended for autobuilders, and
> was introduced in Buildroot while the latest kernel was 6.12.
> However, further investigation seem to indicate that itb images were
> generated for mips for a much longer time. Linux commit eed0eabd12 [2]
> seem to enable that image format, and was released in Linux 4.9.
> This version being EOL for quite some time, we can therefore assume
> any "not so old" Linux for mips will need host-uboot-tools to finalize
> this image, and therefore we should select it when building Linux.
> [1] linux: select host-uboot-tools with FIT on mips
> https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/40e266ccb9
> [2] MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=eed0eabd12ef061821cbfa20d903476e07645320
> Signed-off-by: Titouan Christophe <titouan.christophe@mind.be>
Committed, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-10 20:15 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3] Add first-class support for all active upstream Linux versions Titouan Christophe via buildroot
2026-10-10 20:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] linux: always select host-uboot-tools for mips Titouan Christophe via buildroot
2026-10-11 12:30 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2026-10-10 20:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] linux: add first-class support for all upstream linux versions Titouan Christophe via buildroot
2026-10-11 12:32 ` Peter Korsgaard
2026-10-11 13:12 ` Peter Korsgaard
2026-10-10 20:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] configs: update defconfigs with custom versions to BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_LATEST_X_Y Titouan Christophe via buildroot
2026-10-11 13:05 ` Peter Korsgaard
2026-10-11 13:08 ` Titouan Christophe via buildroot
2026-10-11 16:45 ` Baruch Siach via buildroot
2026-10-11 19:10 ` Titouan Christophe via buildroot
2026-10-12 6:04 ` Baruch Siach via buildroot
2026-10-12 8:35 ` Titouan Christophe via buildroot
2026-10-12 10:40 ` Arnout Vandecappelle via buildroot
2026-10-13 5:58 ` Baruch Siach via buildroot
2026-10-13 5:55 ` Baruch Siach via buildroot
2026-10-11 19:29 ` Arnout Vandecappelle via buildroot
2026-10-11 19:37 ` Titouan Christophe via buildroot
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