I want to add a featue to the makefile configuration so that a user can compile u-boot including a directory that gets compiled
as a stand
alone program. I propose that users can enter a directory when configuring the board, for example
I like this idea, but can't you already do this in the Makefile, but just adding stuff to the rule for BOARD_config?
Yes, but the point of this in my case is that I compile a diagnostic utility used to test boards at our office. It does not get shipped with the board and so having a config rule just for these types of things just clutters the makefile. It would be a better solution for us and our customers if we could just copy an additional folder into the u-boot directory and add it to the list of compiled subdirectories when using the BOARD_config rule.It is also possible to use the command:
make BOARD_config SA=../my_stand_alone_prog_dir
To compile a stand alone program in the parent directory of u-boot. (which is how I use it to compile my doagnostic tools with u-boot.)
For the MPC8349E-mITX, Freescale's BSP ships with a closed-source binary firmware for the 5-port Ethernet switch. It would be great if the denx.de version of U-Boot could automatically add support for this binary if it existed in the development tree. The idea would be that u-boot.bin would include this binary.
So you comile both at once? That is soft of what I am going for, but I compile u-boot stand-alone-programs like the ones in the examples folder.
-Jeffrey