[yocto] SPL_IMAGE, SPL_BINARY, and SPL_SYMLINK definitions

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

Thanks - good info.

Scott

>-----Original Message-----
>From: William Mills [mailto:wmills at ti.com]
>Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:03 AM
>To: Rifenbark, Scott M
>Cc: Yocto discussion list; Dmytriyenko, Denys
>Subject: Re: [yocto] SPL_IMAGE, SPL_BINARY, and SPL_SYMLINK definitions
>
>On 11/25/2013 09:06 AM, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
>> Anyone have descriptions for these three variables?  I would like to
>document them and am wondering if anyone has used them or knows how
>they work.
>>
>
>SPL is the preloader for U-boot required on some platforms.
>
>The base include for u-boot defines the SPL_IMAGE and SPL_SYMLINK
>http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/recipes-bsp/u-
>boot/u-boot.inc
>
>One example of use of SPL_BINARY is here:
>http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-ti/tree/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-
>boot_2011.12.bb
>
>So the SPL_BINARY defines the name of the file in the filesystem image.
>The SPL_IMAGE and SPL_SYMLINK appear to specific the long version specific
>image file produced by the build and the somewhat shorter symlink that
>points to it.  These will be in a machine specific dir on the build machine; the
>same place the kernel is found.
>(The kernel also gets a very long name and a symlink  you can reuse wording
>from the description if you have that already.)