>-----Original Message----- >From: Richard Purdie <[email protected]> >Sent: 04 January 2021 13:23 >To: Diego Sueiro <[email protected]>; openembedded- >[email protected] >Cc: nd <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] u-boot: add /boot and ${sysconfdir} to >SYSROOT_DIRS > >On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 13:07 +0000, Diego Sueiro wrote: >> For some arm based machines we end up generating loads of intermediate >> binaries which will be further processed and combined as standalone >> images, for example. >> I think doesn't make sense to have them in the deploy dir since it >> will make it polluted and I do much prefer to have a tidy deploy dir >> with only artifacts for flashing/update the target, rather than a list >> of useless artifacts that can't be used directly. >> >> And I do agree with you that using the SYSROOT_DIRS for this purpose >> might lead to confusion. Is it plausible to come up with a new >> variable and do_populate related tasks to address use cases like the >> one I described > >Just thinking out loud, maybe we can use SYSROOT_DIRS if we use something >which is named clearly such that its obvious it will never be on the target >rootfs? > >"/boot" is confusing as some systems do have/use that but there is nothing >stopping us creating something specific to this purpose. We'd have to clearly >document it should never be used for anything also shared using do_deploy >and was for intermediate files only? > This might be the simplest solution with low code and documentation impacts. In meta-arm we make usage of the "/firmware" directory to include these intermediate files. I suspect that in case of u-boot we could also consider it as a "firmware" artifact?
Cheers, Diego Sueiro
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