On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 19:22 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> The uboot-config class uses the UBOOT_CONFIG environment setting to >> choose which U-Boot option is intended to build. It is convenient to >> allow it to be set from the shell, as supported for MACHINE. >> >> This allow, for example, to trigger a build as: >> >> ,---- >> | MACHINE=imx28evk UBOOT_CONFIG=nand bitbake core-image-minimal >> `---- >> >> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <ota...@ossystems.com.br> >> --- >> scripts/oe-buildenv-internal | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > There are lots of things which we can expose from the shell, we only > really want to default to be things which are commonly changed though. > How often do people realistically change their uboot targets? I > appreciate that when working on uboot its useful but I don't think this > is a significant portion of the userbase?
Well this is hard to guess; I know this is important for me ask we used it daily. Besides that it is something which is very tied to the machine and it makes sense to be to be allowed to override it from shell, as this easy user's life in development and testing. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
