[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] make MAKEALL more immune to mergeconflicts

Jon Loeliger jdl at freescale.com
Wed Aug 8 17:59:28 CEST 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 10:43, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <12052243.post at talk.nabble.com> you wrote:
> > 
> > I would like to point out another thing that bothers me here: Whenever I take
> > the most up to date version of U-Boot, I need to perform a merge on MAKEALL,
> > as my local version includes the names of all my custom boards. I guess I'm
> > not the only one bothered by this. I suggest that each processor family line
> > in MAKEALL will hold an additional "external boards" variable, which will
> > hold a list of all the external boards (for this family). The value of this
> > variable should be achieved from an "external boards" makefile, included by
> > MAKEALL. This file is obviously empty in the U-boot repository, and filled
> > with one's own custom boards elsewhere. 
> 
> What is an "external board"? I don;t understand the concept.

I think he means more like "extra boards".

> May I instead recommend that you submit your stuff for inclusion in
> the public tree?

Exactly those "extra" boards that have not been sent upstream yet. :-)

jdl






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