[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 0/4] Improvements to i.MX6 SABRESD boards support

Luca Ceresoli luca at lucaceresoli.net
Mon Sep 22 13:14:25 UTC 2014


Dear Thomas,

thanks for your suggestions.

Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Luca Ceresoli,
>
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:12:48 +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
>
>> Luca Ceresoli (3):
>>    configs/freescale_imx6qsabresd: rename imx6 to imx6q
>>    configs/freescale_imx6dlsabresd: add defconfig for iMX6DL SabreSD
>>    freescale/imx6-sabresd: document how to create a bootable SD
>>
>> Vincent Stehlé (1):
>>    imx6sabresd: boot to /init in mfgtools mode
>
> I've applied your four patches. However, I'd like to see additional
> patches to make the following improvements:
>
>   * For the defconfigs, select a specific version of the kernel headers.
>     Currently, your defconfigs are building a 3.10 kernel, but the
>     kernel headers used in the toolchain are the latest ones (i.e 3.16
>     currently), which is not good. This was already wrong in the
>     existing defconfig, so I applied your patches nonetheless. But it
>     should be fixed.

I'm working on this. I switched from Freescale's git repo to vanilla
Linux, since the Freescale releases do not provide any later version.

However I'm going to test this before sending a patch, to make sure it
works.

>
>   * For the last patch adding a U-Boot patch, I believe we would prefer
>     to use the global patch dir mechanism now, rather than the U-Boot
>     specific option for patches.

Yeah, fixed that. Will send together with the kernel version patch.

-- 
Luca



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