Re: making debs for u-boot kernels
On Wednesday 24 July 2019 08:54:42 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The u-boot protocol assumes some of the files you see here:
>
> [...]
>
> > Are located at fixed offsets from the disks LSN0.
>
> I don't were you got that idea.
From Digi, who own the copyrights since they announced it in 2001.
> Or maybe you're using a non-mainline
> U-Boot. The mainline U-Boot I'm using on my Banana-Pis can find the
> files it needs (including boot.scr) in the "normal way" (it knows the
> partition table and ext2 formats).
>
> The only "located at fixed offsets" constraints is on the location of
> U-Boot itself, which I installed once and for all on the SD card via
> `dd`.
>
> >> See the /boot/GNUmakefile I use to help me do that, below
> >
> > I have no such file as can be see above,
>
> Of course not, I wrote it for my own use.
>
> > make -f GNUMakefile
>
> No need for the extra arguments, GNU Make automatically looks for
> `GNUmakefile` before looking for `Makefile` and `makefile`.
>
>
> Stefan
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