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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: any necessity for MACHINEOVERRIDES in mpc8315e-rdb.conf?
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On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 07:23 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   (yet more pedantry, but when i try to explain stuff like this to
> students, it's nice to know what i'm talking about.)
> 
>   i notice the following excerpts from YP's mpc8315e-rdb.conf:
> 
>   KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "uImage"
>   UBOOT_MACHINE_mpc8315e-rdb = "MPC8315ERDB_config"
>   KERNEL_DEVICETREE = "mpc8315erdb.dtb"
> 
> what is the purpose (if any) for the "mpc8315e-rdb" override in the
> line:
> 
>   UBOOT_MACHINE_mpc8315e-rdb = "MPC8315ERDB_config"
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> given that this is a machine config file for a specific target,
> "mpc8315e-rdb", wouldn't this suffice?
> 
>   UBOOT_MACHINE = "MPC8315ERDB_config"

I suspect this would be fine, yes.

Cheers,

Richard