Re: u-boot split for many targets
On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 11:31 -0500, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2014-09-08 04:26:48 -0500, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Ideally we would build FEL variants for all sunxi boards, but we don't
> > have _FEL defconfigs for everything upstream. Hans (my co-custodian)
> > rightly doesn't want to duplicate every defconfig twice.
> >
> > At the weekend I was playing with the two attached patches which build a
> > FEL variant for every sunxi board.
>
> Not every sunxi board actually supports FEL, does it? or at least, some
> may be missing buttons to enable and such?
Even without the button you can use a FEL SD card to force FEL mode, or
more usefully the processor will enter FEL if none of the other boot
mechanisms succeed.
> > I think Vagrant is correct that we should also be looking to split the
> > sunxi stuff (which has a bazzilion variants it seems) into a different
> > package. The required debian/rules changes for that might also provide a
> > better hook for enabling FEL variations than what I've done above. I'm
> > thinking along the lines of an extra column in debian/targets which is
> > either "-" or a package name suffix ("sunxi").
>
> I'm wondering if u-boot shouldn't just take advantage of executable
> debhelper files or arch-specific debhelper files and simplify
> debian/rules considerably...
Possibly. Even just pulling the build stuff into a helper script (so it
can be written without mad quoting etc) would help a lot IMHO.
> It still gets into issues of which targets to build for which platforms,
> although I think it's neelessly shipping some targets in the binaries,
> when they are merely targets used to generate the SPL/MLO files...
>
> I'll give it a whirl.
>
>
> live well,
> vagrant
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