Whither boot programs

[Olivier Houchard]

Hi Warner,

On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 07:25:54PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> There's a bunch of AT91 boot programs that I have committed.  These
> are all AT91 specific, although I'm sure someone could tease out the
> more generally useful bits (like SD/MMC or xmodem goo).  For the
> moment, I've disabled installing them because they were winding up in
> /, which is clearly wrong.
> 

Yep I noticed that when building a world for the IXP425 :)

> What's the best way to install these?
> 
> (a) Never install or build
> (b) Only install when the specific sub-port is built (might be hard
>     since buildworld has no knowledge of the sub-port).
> (c) Install them into /boot/at91_foo?
> (d) Install them into /boot/at91/foo?
> 
> I'm leaning towards (a) or (c) (c more heavily).
> 

c sounds ok to me. People not wanting it could use MK_BOOT=no to disable the
build.

Olivier

> Warner
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