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Minor rework of the section 'Creating your own board support', as follows: - Rename section into 'Adding support for a particular board' - Modify introduction - Refer to Project-specific customizations chapter Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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// -*- mode:doc; -*-
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// vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
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[[adding-board-support]]
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== Adding support for a particular board
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Buildroot contains basic configurations for several publicly available
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hardware boards, so that users of such a board can easily build a system
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that is known to work. You are welcome to add support for other boards
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to Buildroot too.
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To do so, you need to create a normal Buildroot configuration that
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builds a basic system for the hardware: toolchain, kernel, bootloader,
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filesystem and a simple BusyBox-only userspace. No specific package
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should be selected: the configuration should be as minimal as
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possible, and should only build a working basic BusyBox system for the
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target platform. You can of course use more complicated configurations
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for your internal projects, but the Buildroot project will only
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integrate basic board configurations. This is because package
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selections are highly application-specific.
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Once you have a known working configuration, run +make
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savedefconfig+. This will generate a minimal +defconfig+ file at the
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root of the Buildroot source tree. Move this file into the +configs/+
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directory, and rename it +<boardname>_defconfig+.
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It is recommended to use as much as possible upstream versions of the
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Linux kernel and bootloaders, and to use as much as possible default
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kernel and bootloader configurations. If they are incorrect for your
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board, or no default exists, we encourage you to send fixes to the
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corresponding upstream projects.
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However, in the mean time, you may want to store kernel or bootloader
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configuration or patches specific to your target platform. To do so,
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create a directory +board/<manufacturer>+ and a subdirectory
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+board/<manufacturer>/<boardname>+. You can then store your patches
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and configurations in these directories, and reference them from the main
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Buildroot configuration. Refer to xref:customize[] for more details.
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