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[Loïc Minier <loic.minier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011, James Westby wrote:
> The second is clearly less work, as it is only a slight change from what
> we have now (one new config entry, copied to the metadata, finding the
> u-boot file based on the metadata rather than a find command.)

 Ok; I didn't see the big difference in work, but you outline the extra
 step we'd have to implement

 Let's see if this can be done

> However, it may be worth doing the first, if it is the goal to stop
> installing the u-boot package on the image. Is that the goal? What is
> the justification for that?

 Yes; because the u-boot package doesn't belong in the installed rootfs,
 it's not going to be updated in place if you upgrade your u-boot-linaro
 package (and I think that would be a bad idea).  We could imagine
 schemes such as booting over serial line or simply having u-boot in
 flash where an u-boot in the rootfs doesn't make sense.  So basically,
 it's not really for the space savings but because u-boot doesn't belong
 there.

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Loïc Minier