On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:42:13AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote: > Hi Imre, > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 10:54:19PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > Hi Imre, > > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 10:30:46PM +0200, Imre Kaloz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:59:25 +0200, Maxime Ripard > > > <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com> wrote: > > > > > > >This patch adds a new profile for the Mirabox, and fixes a few things > > > >along the way, mostly because of the Mirabox NAND page size that > > > >differs from the other mvebu boards (and most of the boards supported > > > >by OpenWRT apparently). > > > > > > At first look they look fine, except the UBI* options in the > > > profiles. We always want to build images for all boards, so I would > > > keep those in the image Makefile and keep the profiles for the bare > > > minimum like on other targets. > > > > Ok, how would you support boards with alternate UBI and UBIFS options > > then? By hacking into Image/Build like what's done currently for mamba? > > Can we move forward on this? > > Enforcing UBI options for the whole target is not a reasonable > option. You won't be able to use any generated image on a board that > doesn't have the same eraseblock, page and sub-page sizes. Mirabox is > in this case, the not-yet supported Armada 385 RD too, and presumably > a lot of others. > > I've looked more in the include/image.mk file, and the only way for > now to deal with this aside from setting it at the target level is to > set it in the profile. > > If we want to build images that boot on every boards for a given > target, regardless of the profile, this is indeed something that will > not work. Should I introduce a "board"? Do you have something else in > mind?
Imre? Any suggestions? Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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