u-boot builds rely on system mkimage

Bug #1102717 reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Linaro Android
Confirmed
Low
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer

Bug Description

Linaro Android builds that use u-boot as their bootloader rely on having a system version of mkimage installed.

This is bad for 2 reasons: The obvious one (build will fail on systems that don't have mkimage) and a less obvious and more important one: If u-boot ever changes the way mkimage works and the system version is not in sync with what we're using, we'll have a hard-to-spot boot failure.

Since mkimage does get built during the u-boot build process, this is probably just a matter of adding $(BUILD_OUT_EXECUTABLES) to the PATH while building the kernel.

vishal (vishalbhoj)
Changed in linaro-android:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (berolinux)
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Botao (botao-sun) wrote :

Comment from Bero:
"not sure if this was fixed, but it's not a priority because so far mkimage has never changed in a significant way. Still should be fixed though given the fix is so simple."

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Botao (botao-sun) wrote :

@Bero, Would you help to close this bug as Won't Fix? If we decide to work on it in future, we can open a new one in Bugzilla to track it.

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