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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 11:55 +0200, David Vincent wrote:
> barebox (formerly known as u-boot-v2) is a bootloader that inherits the
> best of U-Boot and the Linux kernel. This commit adds the possibility to
> use it as a virtual/bootloader instead of U-Boot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Vincent <freesilicon@gmail.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-bsp/barebox/barebox.inc          |   73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  meta/recipes-bsp/barebox/barebox_2014.07.0.bb |   15 +++++
>  2 files changed, 88 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-bsp/barebox/barebox.inc
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-bsp/barebox/barebox_2014.07.0.bb

I have to admit I don't know a lot about this. To make it into OE-Core
we need some kind of story about why its necessary and commonly used.
Are there a number of BSPs using this? Can you give some background to
why this is needed?

Cheers,

Richard