>>>>> "Ahmad" == Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> When selecting barebox in menuconfig, BR2_TARGET_BAREBOX_IMAGE_FILE will
> be empty by default, which causes Buildroot to install whatever the
> barebox-flash-image symlink points at for barebox versions >= v2012.10.0.
> This is an outdated fallback, because barebox-flash-image is only valid
> when the barebox build produces a single binary. Virtually all new
> defconfigs added in the last couple of years are multiconfig
> (CONFIG_PBL_IMAGE=y) however, meaning that a single imx_v7_defconfig
> or multi_v8_defconfig will produce many images that support different
> boards or even platforms.
> As there is no single valid target for barebox-flash-image to point at
> in this case, this symlink will point at a non-existing
> 'multi-image-build' to alert the user to this fact.
> As replacement for barebox-flash-image, barebox commit 550cf79c216a
> ("Make list of flash images and fix link all single image cases") first
> released with v2015.12.0 creates a barebox-flash-images file with a list
> of all images built by barebox.
> Have buildroot use that file as a fallback before trying
> barebox-flash-image to have a fallback that works for any recent barebox
> defconfig as well.
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Committed, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
