From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Message-ID: <4F1BDDE3.7050807@biessmann.de> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:58:59 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_Bie=DFmann?= MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1327165141-8606-1-git-send-email-andreas@biessmann.de> <20120121182236.GK4854@pengutronix.de> In-Reply-To: <20120121182236.GK4854@pengutronix.de> Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH / RFC] replace umkimage by u-boot sources Reply-To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de List-Id: PTXdist Development Mailing List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de Errors-To: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de To: m.olbrich@pengutronix.de Cc: ptxdist@pengutronix.de Hi Michael, On 21.01.12 19:22, Michael Olbrich wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 05:59:01PM +0100, Andreas Bie=DFmann wrote: >> This patch removes the forked mkimage u-boot tool and uses the mainline >> u-boot code to build this tool. >> >> Signed-off-by: Andreas Bie=DFmann >> --- >> Treat this as an RFC, especially the fw_{save|print}env tool is subject = to >> discuss. >> >> Some additional questions: >> * how to handle the situation where only U_BOOT_TOOLS but no >> U_BOOT_TOOLS_TOOL_xxx is choosen? > = > Keep it like it is. We have many other packages like that. OK > = >> * How to inject a user provided configuration for fw_printenv? > = > 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? 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 ... >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/rules/host-u-boot-tools.in >> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ >> +## SECTION=3Dhosttools_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). regards Andreas Bie=DFmann -- = ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de