From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:26:38 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] u-boot: add config option to disable general patches In-Reply-To: <1231451799.9711.13.camel@elrond.atmel.com> (Ulf Samuelsson's message of "Thu\, 08 Jan 2009 22\:56\:39 +0100") References: <200811140854.58814.markus.heidelberg@web.de> <87od0ijunz.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <200811151156.02393.markus.heidelberg@web.de> <200901081510.39837.markus.heidelberg@web.de> <878wplsw9q.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1231451799.9711.13.camel@elrond.atmel.com> Message-ID: <87mye0oh3l.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Samuelsson writes: Hi, Ulf> I can see a few alternatives. Ulf> 1) Get rid of the patches, and introduce the possibility Ulf> to select a prepatched version with these patches I take it that's already there with your BR2_U_BOOT_SITE addition? Ulf> 2) Keep the patches and prune them once Ulf> they are in mainstream. Ulf> I am only interested in maintaing one set of patches Ulf> for one version, so as I mentioned before, Ulf> I submitted about half a dozen patches the last two days Ulf> and it looks like they can enter the main tree, Ulf> with maybe a little rework. We'll see how they are received, We'll need to get rid of them sooner or later atleast. Ulf> 3) Do it the same way I did the Advanced Linux support Ulf> Keep target/u-boot, but allow patches Ulf> to be taken from the target/device/ Ulf> In this case, the patches would go into Ulf> target/device/Atmel/arch-at91/u-boot-2009.01-rc1 Ulf> The last option is appealing. Yes, or more generally - Provide more flexibility for the U-Boot/Linux source, see my earlier mail. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard