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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador@ossystems.com.br>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>,
	Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>,
	Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] u-boot: Update to 2016.01 release
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:41:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201601142241.39038.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP9ODKptS3b30mw8ZDZ1Pd2gLsN+wj8aJxxz+X4xWAr7qiAZCw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 10:37:16 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> ...
> 
> > Taking a look at u-boot.inc and uboot-config.bbclass makes me wonder how
> > all that could work at all. It's either a stackpile of legacy cruft or
> > just poor design.
> 
> I think it is a mix of both.
> 
> How would you address this in a clean way?

I would have one U-Boot build per package. Debian doesn't do it that way tho,
so their rationale might be something to consider here too.

I would also have exactly one variable to for a machine and it would be the
name of the config _WITHOUT_ any _config or _defconfig or _whatever suffix.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-14 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-13  3:36 [PATCH] u-boot: Update to 2016.01 release Marek Vasut
2016-01-13  4:49 ` Khem Raj
2016-01-13  5:01   ` Marek Vasut
2016-01-13  6:42     ` Khem Raj
2016-01-13 12:04 ` Otavio Salvador
2016-01-13 14:34   ` Marek Vasut
2016-01-13 15:39     ` Otavio Salvador
2016-01-13 15:53       ` Marek Vasut
2016-01-13 15:55         ` Otavio Salvador
2016-01-13 16:30           ` Marek Vasut
2016-01-13 16:40             ` Otavio Salvador
2016-01-13 17:09               ` Marek Vasut
2016-01-13 17:16                 ` Otavio Salvador
2016-01-13 17:42                   ` Marek Vasut
2016-01-13 17:56                     ` Otavio Salvador
2016-01-13 20:35                       ` Marek Vasut
2016-01-13 20:57                         ` Otavio Salvador
2016-01-13 22:09           ` Tom Rini
2016-01-14 20:43             ` Otavio Salvador
2016-01-14 21:15               ` Marek Vasut
2016-01-14 21:37                 ` Otavio Salvador
2016-01-14 21:41                   ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2016-01-14 23:42                     ` Otavio Salvador
2016-01-15  1:07                       ` Marek Vasut

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