From: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: "meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org" <meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH 2/2] machines: Add IMAGE_BOOT_FILES
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 11:54:22 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP9ODKrRkGtG8xAsc387Q2TB4tAa1217z0BCgtE-oUcNmmzzGw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150302130426.GN4094@piout.net>
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On 02/03/2015 at 09:35:36 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote :
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Alexandre Belloni
>> <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> > Define IMAGE_BOOT_FILES in the machine configuration to be able to
>> > create sdcard images using wic.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
>>
>> Thanks for looking at this; wic is indeed a very handy addition :-)
>>
>> > diff --git a/conf/machine/imx51evk.conf b/conf/machine/imx51evk.conf
>> > index 9d7d06ca41fc..89bcacb932fb 100644
>> > --- a/conf/machine/imx51evk.conf
>> > +++ b/conf/machine/imx51evk.conf
>> > @@ -13,5 +13,6 @@ SOC_FAMILY = "mx5:mx51"
>> > PERF_FEATURES_ENABLE = ""
>> >
>> > KERNEL_DEVICETREE = "imx51-babbage.dtb"
>> > +IMAGE_BOOT_FILES = "zImage zImage-imx51-babbage.dtb;imx51-babbage.dtb"
>> >
>> > UBOOT_MACHINE = "mx51evk_config"
>>
>> To be honest, I don't like the idea of maintaining the list of
>> duplicated device tree files.
>>
>> I am wondering if we can cook a generic solution whick uses
>> KERNEL_DEVICETREE as input and generates the list of artifacts it
>> needs to install. Leaving them disconnected is very error prone.
>>
>
> I agree but that is the current mechanism. Actually, I think we should
> even have a better mechanism were it would be possible to select which
> files are going to which partition. I didn't implement it yet.
>
> There is one issue with generating the IMAGE_BOOT_FILES from
> KERNEL_DEVICETREE. You can put non existing dtb filenames in
> KERNEL_DEVICETREE and they will be ignored but not in IMAGE_BOOT_FILES.
> That is the case for imx6qsabresd.conf.
No; they will fail to build in the kernel as this is passed on kernel
make command.
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Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-02 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-02 11:45 [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH 1/2] wic: add kickstart files for i.mx Alexandre Belloni
2015-03-02 11:45 ` [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH 2/2] machines: Add IMAGE_BOOT_FILES Alexandre Belloni
2015-03-02 12:35 ` Otavio Salvador
2015-03-02 13:04 ` Alexandre Belloni
2015-03-02 14:54 ` Otavio Salvador [this message]
2015-03-02 15:05 ` Alexandre Belloni
2015-03-02 15:06 ` Otavio Salvador
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