[meta-ti] [meta-ti patch v3 2/3] am43xx: Added the u-boot recipe

[Maupin, Chase]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Muddegowda, Deepak
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>To: Maupin, Chase; Srinivasan, Nageswari; Heroor, Siddharth;
>Cooper Jr., Franklin; Dmytriyenko, Denys; Mankad, Maulik Ojas;
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>Subject: RE: [meta-ti patch v3 2/3] am43xx: Added the u-boot
>recipe
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maupin, Chase
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 7:14 PM
>> To: Muddegowda, Deepak; Srinivasan, Nageswari; Heroor,
>Siddharth;
>> Cooper Jr., Franklin; Dmytriyenko, Denys; Mankad, Maulik Ojas;
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>> Subject: RE: [meta-ti patch v3 2/3] am43xx: Added the u-boot
>recipe
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Muddegowda, Deepak
>> >Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 7:40 AM
>> >To: Srinivasan, Nageswari; Maupin, Chase; Heroor, Siddharth;
>Cooper
>> >Jr., Franklin; Dmytriyenko, Denys; Mankad, Maulik Ojas;
>Muddegowda,
>> >Deepak; epos_dev at list.ti.com - Internal mailing list for EPOS
>dev team
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>> >Subject: [meta-ti patch v3 2/3] am43xx: Added the u-boot recipe
>> >
>> >Added the LIC_FILES_CHKSUM in the recipe as the default
>checksum was
>> >pointing to the COPYING file which is moved to the
>Licenses/gpl-
>> 2.0.txt
>> >in the current source.
>> >
>> >Signed-off-by: Deepak M <x0171695 at ti.com>
>> >---
>> >v3:
>> >1. Changed the u-boot recipe name from u-boot-aegis to u-boot-
>am43xx.
>> >2. Using externel source link.
>> >
>> > recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-am43xx_2013.10.bb | 20
>> >++++++++++++++++++++
>> > 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>> > create mode 100644 recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-am43xx_2013.10.bb
>> >
>> >diff --git a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-am43xx_2013.10.bb
>> >b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-am43xx_2013.10.bb
>>
>> My assumption is this is a temporary recipe correct?  Once the
>unified
>> u-boot recipe in is place you can then just append what you need
>on top
>> right?
>[Muddegowda, Deepak] Not exactly temporary, may change the SRC_URI
>in future that’s it.

OK.  Now my question is why?  If you are given a base u-boot recipe that supports am43xx devices why would you define your own instead of appending?

>>
>> >new file mode 100644
>> >index 0000000..58eb99a
>> >--- /dev/null
>> >+++ b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-am43xx_2013.10.bb
>> >@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
>> >+require u-boot-ti.inc
>> >+
>> >+DESCRIPTION = "u-boot bootloader for ARM MPU devices"
>> >+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Licenses/gpl-
>> >2.0.txt;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
>> >+COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "am437x-epos-evm"
>> >+
>> >+DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"
>> >+
>> >+PV = "2013.10"
>> >+PR = "r0+gitr${SRCPV}"
>> >+
>> >+BRANCH = "v2013.10-rc2+"
>> >+
>> >+SRC_URI = "git://git.ti.com/~lokesh/ti-u-boot/u-boot-
>> >dev.git;protocol=git;branch=${BRANCH}"
>> >+
>> >+# Lock to the commit corresponding
>> >+SRCREV = "6514cf76a52ecce9b03ede098683a7eea97e2bce"
>> >+
>> >+# Set the name of the SPL that will built so that it is also
>> >packaged with u-boot.
>> >+SPL_BINARY = "MLO"
>> >--
>> >1.8.1