[PATCH v3 0/7] Basic support for Armada 370/XP SOCs

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Sun May 12 06:24:04 EDT 2013


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:12:46AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Sascha Hauer,
> 
> On Sun, 12 May 2013 09:56:44 +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > There is a problem with this series: It doesn't build without the
> > addtional binary needed for the kwb tool. Can we make creating a kwb
> > image optional so that we are able to build the defconfigs without
> > additional dependencies?
> 
> Hum, right. So we should make the default build target to not build
> barebox.{kwb,kwbuart} and only make barebox.bin?
> 
> Or there should be a config option somewhere to say "I also want
> the .{kwb,kwbuart} images generated" ?
> 
> Neither of those are ideal, because most likely people will not notice
> the possibility of building the .{kwb,kwbuart} images, but I understand
> the concern of not being able to build defconfigs.
> 
> Tell me which solution you prefer, and I'll send a patch that
> implements it.

How about a warning like:

"Warning: 'plathome-openblocks-ax3-binary.0' does not exist. Not building barebox.kwb"

Also not an ideal solution, but I think there is no really good way to
solve this other than including the binary in the tree which probably
has some licensing issues.

Sascha


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