[Buildroot] Advice on a board support

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Angelo Compagnucci,

On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 17:15:50 +0200, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:

> > The Git tree you pointed at is unfortunately not a kernel Git tree
> > which you can directly point Buildroot at. It's a tree that contains
> > kernel patches, so Buildroot cannot do much with this. However, since
> > the number of patches is rather small, you can simply copy them in
> > Buildroot in board/olimex/<boardname>/, and point Buildroot to this
> > directory for the kernel patches.
> 
> Yep. That was the problem. I'm aware of the kernel programming in
> general (I have a driver in mainline tree), but cannot understand if
> simply copying some spare patches was the way. Probably I should force
> the kernel version in the configuration, is this correct?

Correct.

> > Note that the patches in this tree look a bit weird: there are some
> > patches for AT91 SOCs, and some other patches for i.MX SOCs.
> 
> Yes, it's weird. Probably the best way is to make myself a git kernel
> tree with these patches applied.

Either that, or even the number of patches is quite small, add them to
board/olimex/<boardname>/ as I suggested above. I believe we don't like
much to have board support that depend on 'personal' Git trees, and
these trees are unlikely to be updated.

Thomas
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