Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v4 2/7] barebox-tools: add initial barebox tools support

Alexander Kanavin
2024-09-10T08:50:01Z

On Tue, 10 Sept 2024 at 10:45, Enrico Jörns <ejo@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > Can this be merged into the main barebox recipe? Does it need a separate recipe?
>
> not only that it would complicate the main recipe (we had tried this before), but I really see no
> point in doing and supporting barebox native builds (in contrast to barebox-tools).
>
> And some of these tools might also be useful without using barebox.
>
> I guess u-boot-tools is separate for similar reasons.

Then you should put the common bits into barebox-common.inc, same as
u-boot does. Also there should be a good DESCRIPTION in there. Why
barebox, and not u-boot, for example?

Alex