On 4/9/20 1:06 PM, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
> Not for the first time, I managed to send my answer not to the list....
> Apologies!
> 
> Below my response on Guillaume
> 
> Op 06-04-2020 om 11:16 schreef Guillaume Gardet:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that Odroid N2 support is part of upstream kernel and is also
>> in upstream U-Boot.
>> The problem is it requires some binary-only blobs as explained at
>> https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/blob/master/board/amlogic/w400/README.odroid-n2
>>
>>
>> So, not sure how we could package it properly on OBS to create a
>> proper image.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Guillaume
>>
> I don't know enough from packaging (in fact I know nothing about
> that...) to understand why the necessity to incorporate binary blobs
> prohibits packaging here, but of course I'll take your word for that.
> 
> Any chance the situation changes in the near future?
> 

The binary blobs would need a license that allows distribution of them.
With that I think we can put them into a OBS project.

Regards,
Matthias

> But, IIUC, this depends on Amlogic providing sources for the firmware
> and for tools needed to create the bootloader image, so I think you
> don't have  a clue neither.
> 
> Thanks for your response!
> 
> cheers, Jogchum
> 
> 

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