[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 4/9] mvebu: Add sub-profiles

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 01:03:49PM +0100, Imre Kaloz wrote:
> Hi Maxime,
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:56:41 +0100, Maxime Ripard
> <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> >+$(eval $(call MultiProfile,Generic,$(PROFILES_LIST)))
> >+$(eval $(call MultiProfile,Evalboards,$(PROFILES_LIST)))
> 
> Profile names should be sourced from the profiles.
> 
> >-	$(foreach nandboard,$(NANDBOARDS),$(call
> >BuildSysupgrade,$(1),$(nandboard));)
> >+	$(call Image/Build/Profile/$(PROFILE)/BuildSysupgrade,$(1))
> 
> UBI and BuildSysUpgrade is there for NAND only.

Ok. I still think UBI might be a good choice for some !NAND-based
boards, but point taken for BuildSysUpgrade.

> On boards with nor (unless you come up with a really good reason to hack
> UBI)

It's not really a hack. UBI is perfectly capable on running on NOR,
and it's even mentionned in their documentation on various occasions.

> you should stick to squashfs+jffs2.

Ok.

> Also, each NOR based board should have "firmware" partition and use
> the OpenWrt MTDSPLIT framework and should have a single, flashable
> firmware image file created instead of separate uImage+rootfs stuff.

I'm not really familiar with MTDSPLIT, but I'll look into that. Thanks!

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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