Re: [ptxdist] AT91bootstrap with ptxdist

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

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 09:19:39AM +0200, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> 2016-08-29 9:26 GMT+02:00 Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
> <guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>:
> > 2016-08-25 13:15 GMT+02:00 Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
> > <guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>:
> >> 2016-08-25 12:54 GMT+02:00 Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>:
> >>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 04:41:52PM +0200, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> >>>> I am trying to compile AT91bootstrap with ptxdist and I have found the
> >>>> following minor issues:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. Starting from end of 2014, at91bootstrap releases are no longer
> >>>> published on ftp://www.at91.com/pub/.. The "official" source now seems
> >>>> to be the at91bootstrap repo. The ftp site contains versions up to
> >>>> 3.7.1 (Nov 2014), while the github repo contains versions from 3.7
> >>>> (Sep 2014) onwards.
> >>>>
> 
> I have had a closer look at this and found the following:
> 
> 1. The original URL used in ptxdist's at91bootstrap2.make
> (ftp://www.at91.com/pub/buildroot/$(AT91BOOTSTRAP2).$(AT91BOOTSTRAP2_SUFFIX))
> does no longer work. The buildroot/ dir in the at91 ftp site does not
> contain at91bootstrap sources anymore.
> 
> 2. In the same ftp site there is a directory
> ftp://www.at91.com/pub/at91bootstrap which contains:
> - Some 1.x at91bootstrap releases (not relevant for
> at91bootstrap_2_.make, which is supposed to deal with versions >= 2.x)
> - No 2.x releases at all (neither source code nor binary)
> - Some (but not all) 3.x releases between 3.1 and 3.7.1: Of these,
> only 3.1 and 3.2 have some sort of source code, although judging from
> the file names they does not seem to be the official releases (perhaps
> a dev snapshot).
> 
> The above means that ptxdist's at91bootstrap2.make is currently more
> or less broken already in its current state.
> 
> 3. Atmel now officially points you to their github repo in order to
> get the source code (see:
> http://www.at91.com/linux4sam/bin/view/Linux4SAM/AT91Bootstrap#Get_AT91Boostrap_Source_Code)
> 
> 4. In the github repo you can find full releases including source code
> for all versions since 3.4 (I said 3.7 in my first mail but I was
> wrong).
> 
> So if no one objects I will prepare and send a patch
> at91bootstrap2.{in,make} to make it work with the current 3.x series.

Sounds good. I've applied the patch. Thanks.

Michael

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