Re: [PATCH L-C v3 0/7] linux-custom recipe rework

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 08.11.19 08:27, Cedric Hombourger wrote:
> 
> On 11/8/19 8:12 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 08.11.19 08:07, Cedric Hombourger wrote:
>>> The Linux kernel is packaged a bit differently between Debian variants
>>> and in particular for the perf package(s) in Debian vs Ubuntu. Since
>>> there is no way the kernel build scripts would ever get distro specific
>>> support for building more than the kernel and headers, we need our own
>>> build/packaging scripts.
>>>
>>> Version 3 of this changeset was tested against ci_build.sh and some 
>>> images were
>>> booted on hardware available here. No regressions were detected (to 
>>> date). This
>>> was also tested on the creator-ci40-marduk machine (subject of 
>>> another patch
>>> series).
>>
>> dts files weren't tested so far. They end up in the wrong directory on 
>> the target and, thus, will not be found by the boot loader. I can 
>> likely tell you in a moment which part exactly is wrong.
> ok thanks. the boards I tested either do not use dtb files or require a 
> custom dtb path setting anyway

I strongly recommend to switch everything to ditro boot. That's usually 
just a simple patch to the default u-boot env. More and more vendors 
support that, and it's the unified way of booting Isar.

Jan