From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:42:32 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] imx-lib: new package In-Reply-To: <50CF5761.7030902@mind.be> (Arnout Vandecappelle's message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:33:21 +0100") References: <1355752131-31966-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> <50CF3F4D.1030100@mind.be> <871ueo8y7k.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <50CF5761.7030902@mind.be> Message-ID: <87r4mo76mf.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle writes: >> Another possibility is to bundle the needed kernel headers with the >> package, similar to how E.G. mtd-utils does it. Arnout> Unfortunately, Freescale probably has a much lower standard about ABI Arnout> compatibility than kernel.org. Also it's relatively likely that a Arnout> buildroot user will use a different Freescale kernel than the one Arnout> assumed by buildroot. So you may end up with userspace assuming Arnout> different struct layouts than the kernel... Yeah, closed source mess :/ -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard