[Buildroot] Right board to use -- buildroot begniers

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

 Hi Dinesh,

 [Please don't top-post]

On 08-09-15 04:13, Dinesh Guleria wrote:
> Thanks Arnout, for your reply.
> 
> This one is quiet expensive :--
> http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-38394/l/evaluation-kit-for-at91sam9g45

 Ah yes I forgot that - I got mine for free :-)

 Check out the linuxgizmos article [1] for a nice overview of low-cost boards.
Some of them have a buildroot defconfig. If you take one which doesn't, you can
develop it yourself and contribute :-)


> It seems to be good bet for beginners  as it is low cost, what do you say ?
> http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-65651?CMP=KNC-PS-G-APAC-GEN-MAN

 That's the atmel_sama5d3_xplained I mentioned. Wow, it is still relatively
expensive...

> Does it comes with uboot installed ?

 I have no idea, but it is fully supported by Buildroot, both for booting from
SD card and booting from flash.


> Does this buildroot support SAMA5D3 & board in above link ? 

 Yes.


> http://www.at91.com/linux4sam/bin/view/Linux4SAM/BuildRoot

 Well, the linux4sam fork is relatively old. In addition, there are some changes
in it that are incorrect. So I'd stick to upstream buildroot :-)


 Regards,
 Arnout

[1] http://linuxgizmos.com/ringing-in-2015-with-40-linux-friendly-hacker-sbcs/

> 
> Please suggest.
> 
> Regards,
> Dinesh
> 
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