[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 10/11] Add u-boot-pad.bin target to the Makefile

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Sep 21 17:52:58 CEST 2012


Dear José Miguel Gonçalves,

In message <505C21BB.7000209 at inov.pt> you wrote:
>
> > It is very important to me that we do NOT include any architectures,
> > SoCs, or board specifc parts in the names because this will cause
> > major PITA for all kind of automatic test suites etc.
> 
> To me this seems also a cleaner solution, as any end user, that simply 
> takes the u-boot sources and performs a make, would easily find the 
> appropriate file to burn on his boot media.
> 
> But in that case, as the NAND image format (for instance) is 
> architecture and/or SoC dependant, what do you suggest is to add 
> conditionals in the Makefile that adequate the 'u-boot-nand.bin' file to 
> the target SoC?

SoC specific make rules can probably be added to the respective SoC
specific makefiles, thus still avoiding to clutter the top level
Makefile with lots of conditionals.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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