On 11/20/2018 09:21 PM, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > This utility is used for creation of images containing > usable in run-time U-Boot environment. > > As of today this utility is added per-board like here [1] > for Intel Edison board. > > [1] http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel-edison/tree/meta-intel-edison-bsp/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-tools_2014.04.bb > > Given there're quite some U-Boot tools that we may want to add later > this recipe name switch from "u-boot-mkimage" to generic "u-boot-tools" > still for compatibility we provide "u-boot-mkimage" with help > of PROVIDES as well as proposed "u-boot-mkenvimage". > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com> > Cc: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> > Cc: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> > Cc: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> > Cc: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> > Cc: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> > --- > > I may "git grep u-boot-mkimage" in more places: > 1. meta/classes/image_types.bbclass:311:CONVERSION_DEPENDS_u-boot = "u-boot-mkimage-native" > 2. meta/classes/kernel-fitimage.bbclass:7: depends = "%s u-boot-mkimage-native dtc-native" % depends > 3. meta/classes/kernel-uimage.bbclass:6: depends = "%s u-boot-mkimage-native" % depends > 4. meta/conf/distro/include/distro_alias.inc:357:DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-u-boot-mkimage = "Ubuntu=uboot-mkimage Debian=uboot-mkimage" > > But that's not clear for me if it's required to swap "u-boot-mkimage" > to "u-boot-tools" see: > 1. "u-boot-mkimage" is still a valid recipe as we export ot via PROVIDES > (or I'm mixing package name with recipe name which very well might be > the case) > 2. I don't fully understand a mening of "DISTRO_PN_ALIAS". > If that's a name of a package from some big Linux distro or how target > utility is named in that distro. For example in Debian Sid there's > a package named "u-boot-tools" which includes "mkimage", "mkenvimage", > "fw_printenv", "fw_setenv" and many more while in "distro_alias.inc" > we still have: > ---------------->8---------------- > DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-u-boot-mkimage = "Ubuntu=uboot-mkimage Debian=uboot-mkimage" > ---------------->8---------------- Just make u-boot-tools RPROVIDE the u-boot-mkimage, and make it generate a u-boot-mkimage package , no ? -- Best regards, Marek Vasut
