imx-base.inc: avoid explicit imx-boot dependency

We shouldn't force `imx-boot` dependency for i.MX8 SoCs as many can use
U-Boot mainline and those use `imx-boot-container` to generate the
binary blob.

We moved the backward-compatibility note, about 'imx-boot' to the
'imx-boot-container' class.

Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/classes/imx-boot-container.bbclass b/classes/imx-boot-container.bbclass
index 711bbd9e..a420b4c4 100644
--- a/classes/imx-boot-container.bbclass
+++ b/classes/imx-boot-container.bbclass
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 # by variable UBOOT_PROVIDES_BOOT_CONTAINER, which is defined in the
 # base machine include file (imx-base.inc), and is set to "1" when the
 # 'imx-boot-container' is present in MACHINEOVERRIDES.
+#
+# NOTE: A backwards-compatible symlink is added for 'flash.bin', named
+# 'imx-boot', during the deployment task.
 
 # Define ATF binary file to be deployed to the U-Boot build folder
 ATF_MACHINE_NAME = "bl31-${ATF_PLATFORM}.bin"