Hi, On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 16:44:15 -0300 Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm making a script to extract data out of bitbake's cache metadata and >> stumbled upon IMAGE_BOOTLOADER. >> >> Is there any special reason to use IMAGE_BOOTLOADER instead of >> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/bootloader? > > Very good point. I think when I did the class, for SD card > generation, we hadn't this around (or I missed it). > > Looking at it, this should indeed be dropped but it is going to need > some work as we need to provide a u-boot-dummy for the cases when we > don't need a bootloader in the SD card image, as it is the case for > Nitrogen boards for example. > > We can discuss how to address it for 1.7 later. Ok. There are also boards which set PREFERRED_PROVIDER_u-boot. As far as I understand, PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/bootloader would do the trick for those cases too. Best wishes. Mario -- http://www.ossystems.com.br -- _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
