[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/uboot-tools: add option to build env bin

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Sat May 9 09:56:37 UTC 2020


Hello Matt,

On Fri,  8 May 2020 13:13:04 -0500
Matt Weber <matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com> wrote:

> Add an option to allow the creation of a u-boot environment binary
> from a set of provided source file(s) when the defconfig being built
> does not offer the option via the u-boot package.

I don't understand why we need this, when we already have
BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_ENVIMAGE and related options in U-Boot.

I don't see how the logic behind BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_ENVIMAGE depends on
the defconfig being built.

Could you clarify ?

Thanks,

Thomas
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