[Buildroot] [PATCH] Add package raspberrypi-firmware.

Belisko Marek marek.belisko at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 21:50:49 UTC 2012


On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On 09/19/12 22:08, Belisko Marek wrote:
>>>
>>> >    Shouldn't all images be in that boot directory, then?  Or rather,
>>> > doesn't
>>> >  it make more sense to place the bootfiles directly in the images dir?
>>
>> Idea behind /boot directory was to copy raspberrypi booloader files +
>> config file +
>> kernel cmdline file + kernel bzImage to  that directory and compress it
>> to output/images/boot.tar.gz (probably in post-build.sh script)
>> directory to make it
>> more user friendly (avoid manually copy files from different parts of
>> buildroot).
>
>
>  But would the images/ dir contain anything besides the boot.tar.gz?  If
> not,
> it makes more sense to put all the required images in the images dir.  It's
> easier to copy the files from there than to untar them.
>
>  Ah, of course, there's the rootfs files...  But OTOH, you'd also have to
> handle
> bzImage explicitly in some way, so it's just as easy to copy everything
> except
> rootfs.* from the images directory.
I would prefer to keep boot.tar.gz format. Imagine somebody who build
RPI config and in images directory he will have 6 files. How he should
know without reading
elinux.org or rpi webpage what and which should be copied where ? With
boot.tar.gz we can keep it in
consistent format and if the name will be boot.tar.gz then average
user will understand
this should go to boot SD card partition. But this is just my opinion.
>
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
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Cheers,

mbe

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