On 23/08/2013 05:13, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Alexandre Belloni,
>
>> On 22/08/2013 19:56, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Alexandre Belloni
>>>
>>> <alexandre.bell...@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>>>> On 22/08/2013 19:19, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>>>>> What it does different here than original linux-dtb alternatives?
>>>>>> Actually, the default environment present in the barebox mainline for
>>>>>> the cfa10036 is looking for a kernel named zImage-cfa10036 and DTBs
>>>>>> named oftree-${DTB_BOARD_NAME} in /boot. So I'm just creating more
>>>>>> links to the kernel and DTBs. I'm not doing anything differently, I'm
>>>>>> just creating more links.
>>>>> I'd patch the default environment so we avoid custom behaviour from
>>>>> other boards. Do you mind?
>>>> Hum, I'm not sure about that, that would mean that we would have a
>>>> different behaviour between the buildroot generated image and the yocto
>>>> generated image which is not so great from a customer support point of
>>>> view. Also oftree is the usual name for dtbs in barebox, I'd like to
>>>> stick to it. That is just a bunch of links and that part will stay in
>>>> the crystalfontz specific kernel recipe anyway, does it matter that
>>>> much ?
>>> No; but it is code for you to maintain and be sure it keeps working.
>>> Personally I'd stick to OE-Core standard but it is up to you to
>>> decide. I am fine with both ways.
>> Sure but my opinion is that is is already quite stupid that yocto does
>> not use the names generated by the kernel in the first place.
> The linux kernel does generate files named "oftree-FOO" somehow? How?
No, what I meant is that yocto is using
devicetree-zImage-imx28-cfa10036.dtb instead of imx28-cfa10036.dtb for
example when installing devicetrees in the image.-- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
