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On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 08:33 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Jack Mitchell <ml@communistcode.co.uk> wrote:
> > Today I was building an image for the beaglebone with oe-core +
> > meta-beagleboard. meta-beagleboard pretty much provides the machine
> > definition and the kernel. In order to build the correct u-boot (2013.01+) I
> > had to add u-boot 2013.01 to oe-core. Whilst during this I noticed the mess
> > that the u-boot directory had become, I think we need to have a show of
> > hands who uses what u-boot recipes and can they migrate to newer (common)
> > versions.
> 
> The mpc8315e-rdb reference uses v2012.04, and a quick survey didn't turn up
> any other explicit preferred versions in the layers that I have around my
> development machine.
> 
> So for now v2012.04 needs to stay, but as we bump that board to the 3.8 kernel,
> we can give another bootloader a test run.
> 
> >
> > When I submit a patch to get 2013.01 supported, that would make 4 different
> > releases of u-boot; which seems a bit excessive.
> 
> Most releases that I've ever used have kept compatibility fairly well, so I'm
> all for keeping the number of active versions to a minimum. I'd say three is
> a good number, since that matches the number of active kernel versions in
> oe-core as well.

I think one u-boot would be nice. Lets see if we can bump up the
mpc8315e-rdb version...

Cheers,

Richard