[Buildroot] [PATCH] boot/uboot: add option to define custom dependencies

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Heiko,

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 02:06:29 +0200
Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de> wrote:

> From: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner at theobroma-systems.com>
> 
> A custom uboot version my depend on additional unspecified packages
> to be built before the uboot build is attempted.
> 
> One example is an additional config fragment referencing things
> from other packages, so add an option similar to the config fragments
> where these can be defined.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner at theobroma-systems.com>
> ---
>  boot/uboot/Config.in | 8 ++++++++
>  boot/uboot/uboot.mk  | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

Sorry to come back to you so long after the patch was submitted. We
finally had a discussion, and decided that we would prefer to see the
actual practical use cases of this, before merging this option. Maybe
this option is a good idea, but we really want to hear about specific
use cases first. If you have one, we're definitely interested to hear
about it!

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com