Dear Ulf Samuelsson, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > >> The important thing is however that the solution is > > > > Important for what? > > To avoid that external build systems break if anything changes in u-boot.
I don;t see any risk of such breakage, because U-Boot does not exactly have a tradition to change these things avery few weeks. > > Could you please explain which part of this has been an unstable > > interface? As far as I can tell PPCBoot / ARMBoot / U-Boot have > > always created the "final binary image" as you called it in the top > > level directory, and also it's name has never changed. So what > > exactly is unstable here? > > You mentioned yourself that Marvell want to have something different > than u-boot.bin New features get added, indeed. But this does not count here - we were discussing stability of existing interfaces, and these haven't changed. > > I don't. The U-Boot project is driven by a community. If a clear > > majority of voices requests something I would have hard times to make > > my way. > > I am not talking about decisions, I am talking about you not running > into problems, if anything changes, because you know it by heart. Well, if there would be changes to any "install" interface you had to know about these as well. > > Fact is that I am using some scripts that are 10 years old now, and > > there has never been need to change them because of changes in the > > PPCBoot/ARMBoot/U-Boot "interface" - not even when ARMBoot was forked > > from PPCBoot, nor when PPCBoot and ARMBoot were merged back into > > U-Boot. ... > You say that you did not write any new buildscripts > which did not copy anything except u-boot.bin? No, I didn't day that. Don't twist my words. I wrote that I did not have to change existing scripts because existing interfaces never changed. And that was what you complained about: the rist that existing interfaces might change below your feet. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. - Karl Lehenbauer _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
