Hello, On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Yes; but for example in Nitrogen case we need to have a 'u-boot-dummy' which does nothing and the class know this is a 'nop' bootloader. That's why I said it must to be worked in 1.7. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750
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