From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:54:29 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] u-boot: add config option to disable general patches In-Reply-To: <200901081917.16406.markus.heidelberg@web.de> (Markus Heidelberg's message of "Thu\, 8 Jan 2009 19\:17\:16 +0100") References: <200811140854.58814.markus.heidelberg@web.de> <200901081510.39837.markus.heidelberg@web.de> <878wplsw9q.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <200901081917.16406.markus.heidelberg@web.de> Message-ID: <87y6xkpx5m.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 >>>>> "Markus" == Markus Heidelberg writes: Hi, Markus> It's the same as with the Linux kernel: you wouldn't like Markus> patches lying around in Buildroot, which you can't disable Markus> and always get applied. I've been pondering about adding a bit of flexibility to the packages that often need platform specific handling (E.G. Linux/U-Boot). Building upstream versions of those rarely make sense for custom boards, so having the option to apply custom patches or grabbing the entire tree from other version control system seems sensible. Grant Likely once sent a patch series adding support for using other git trees to the kernel build, that I still need to look into. >> The number of configuration options we have in target/u-boot nowadays >> is getty silly. Markus> That's right, but this option is not one to be passed to Markus> U-Boot like all this board specific stuff currently in Markus> Config.in. True. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard