[Task]: Convert recent (2024.01+) u-boot null-patches into dt/ and defconfig/ bare patches
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Task description
The Armbian patching utility supports adding files directly instead of requiring null-patches (patches that add complete files). Null-patches are unwieldy, forcing developers to generate patches for no reason.
We have such setup for many kernels, but also for the vendor rk35xx u-boot, as can be seen in
patch/u-boot/legacy/u-boot-radxa-rk35xx/0000.patching_config.yaml(andpatch/u-boot/legacy/u-boot-radxa-rk35xx/defconfigandpatch/u-boot/legacy/u-boot-radxa-rk35xx/dtfolders).Let's replicate this setup (1 .yaml configuration file and 2 folders, one for DTS and one for defconfig) so we can get rid of null patches for the mainline u-boot as well.
Let's begin with the most recent u-boot (
v2025.01) and work our way back; that way when new contributions begin they've a good example to follow.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: