Re: [PATCH] boot/barebox: install all barebox images if none were specified

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Ahmad" == Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> writes:

 > When selecting barebox in menuconfig, BR2_TARGET_BAREBOX_IMAGE_FILE will
 > be empty by default, which causes Buildroot to install whatever the
 > barebox-flash-image symlink points at for barebox versions >= v2012.10.0.

 > This is an outdated fallback, because barebox-flash-image is only valid
 > when the barebox build produces a single binary. Virtually all new
 > defconfigs added in the last couple of years are multiconfig
 > (CONFIG_PBL_IMAGE=y) however, meaning that a single imx_v7_defconfig
 > or multi_v8_defconfig will produce many images that support different
 > boards or even platforms.

 > As there is no single valid target for barebox-flash-image to point at
 > in this case, this symlink will point at a non-existing
 > 'multi-image-build' to alert the user to this fact.

 > As replacement for barebox-flash-image, barebox commit 550cf79c216a
 > ("Make list of flash images and fix link all single image cases") first
 > released with v2015.12.0 creates a barebox-flash-images file with a list
 > of all images built by barebox.

 > Have buildroot use that file as a fallback before trying
 > barebox-flash-image to have a fallback that works for any recent barebox
 > defconfig as well.

 > Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard