From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ceresoli Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:25:59 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [pull request v3] Pull request for branch for-2011.08/bootloaders In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E1589B7.1090502@lucaceresoli.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello, > > We have a package infrastructure that allows to share a lot of common > behaviour between packages, and allows to add new features easily to > all existing packages (Git/Mercurial download support, or usage of an > external source tree, etc.). > > Unfortunately, some of the packages that would most benefit from those > new infrastructure features are the bootloader and kernel, since it's > typically the software components that have to be modified/tuned > during the course of an embedded Linux project. > > Therefore, this series converts all bootloaders makefiles and the > kernel makefile to the package infrastructure, and adds the > possibility of fetching the kernel and u-boot through Git (it can be > added to other bootloaders with just a few lines of changes, mostly at > the Config.in level). ... I've commented (on the v2 thread) about patch 03: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2011-July/043980.html I'd like that patch to at least return how it was in v2. For all patches except patch 3: Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli [after reading Documentation/SubmittingPatches a few times, I have come to the conclusion that none of Reviewed-by: and Tested-by: imply the other one, but they somehow imply Acked-by:... :) ] Luca