[yocto] meta-swupdate layer with precompiled uboot

[Stefano Babic]

Hi Andreas,

On 09/02/2017 10:17, Andreas Enbacka wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I am looking into using your custom meta-swupate with our current Yocto
> 1.8.1 (fido) based image.

Please take a look - I know from ML that there is people still using
fido and they pushed patches to this branch, but I merge new things just
into -master, -morty and -krogoth.

> However, as we are using Kontron SMARC sAMX6i
> for our platform, Kontron supplies a pre-compiled uBoot. Is it possible
> to use meta-swupdate
> 
> to some extent without uBoot support,

Yes - if you do not touch the environment, you can disable U-Boot
support running "bitbake -c menuconfig swupdate"

> or is it possible to get it to
> work without compiling uBoot as well?

It should work, if you disable U-Boot the libubootenv library should not
be linked.

> Any information would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
>  

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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