[Buildroot] [PATCH 07/46] u-boot: remove option to configuredownload site

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Jun 4 08:32:32 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:14:18 +1000
"Paul Jones" <paul at pauljones.id.au> wrote:

> It would be good if we could keep this feature - I'm in the process of
> adding support for the Mini2440 ARM boards and there is no mainline support
> for them in uboot, so buildroot needs to get uboot from
> http://repo.or.cz/w/u-boot-openmoko/mini2440.git/snapshot/HEAD.tar.gz or the
> git equivalent when git support is added.
> 
> I guess another way is to just put an #ifdef equivilant in u-boot.mk to
> change the download location but that's a bit ugly.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll add something that allows to download
arbitrary tarballs. That's something that I also did for my Linux
kernel code cleanup in Buildroot, so I'll reuse the same scheme. I'll
post an updated version of this patch probably during this WE.

However, I don't think having a Buildroot configuration that depends on
something as "unstable" as an arbitrary development snapshot is a good
idea. I'd prefer if the Buildroot configuration was using a particular
tag or commit, so that the build is reproducible.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
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