Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH / RFC] replace umkimage by u-boot sources

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:58:59AM +0100, Andreas Bießmann wrote:
> > I don't know fw_printenv. Please elaborate.
> 
> As Bernhard said it is a tool to access u-boot configuration from linux
> through /dev/mtdX, but some target specific configuration is required
> here. So would be some ToDo comment required or just leave this til
> someone stumble over the missing target configuration?

Is this a config file, or what? If yes, add an option for it, and use
install_alternative to install it. Then you can add your target specific
file to your BSP. Or always install and add one to generic/ in ptxdist, if
there are some sane default values.

> I know we will need the fw_printenv tool in some of our products in near
> future but at the moment I just want to have a submenu for U-Boot tools.
> A submenu with just one entry would be a bit empty ...
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/rules/host-u-boot-tools.in
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> >> +## SECTION=hosttools_noprompt
> >> +
> >> +config HOST_U_BOOT_TOOLS
> >> +	tristate
> >> +	default ALLYES
> >> +	help
> >> +	  the U-Boot tools contains the mkimage command which is used
> >> +	  to create boot images for the U-Boot bootloader.
> > 
> > Can we even see the help for a noprompt option?
> 
> I don't know ... it was like this before (in host-umkimage.in).

Remove the help. host-umkimage used to have a prompt and the help was not
removed with it.

Michael

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