[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] board: add support for Warpboard

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Arnout, Arthur, All,

On 2015-06-26 00:26 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 06/25/15 10:54, Arthur LAMBERT wrote:
> > Arnout, All,
> > 
> > Le Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 ? 23:46:52 (+0200), Arnout Vandecappelle a ?crit :
> >>> +
> >>> +Enable bluetooth
> >>> +================
> >>> +hciattach /dev/ttymxc4 any
> >>> +hciconfig hci0 up
> >>> +
> >>> +Enable Wifi
> >>> +==========
> >>> +modprobe brcmfmac
> >>> +ifconfig wlan0 up
> >>
> >>  To do something useful, you'll also need a wpa-supplicant I guess...
> >>
> >>  Since you anyway have a rootfs overlay, you could add init scripts to start
> >> wifi and bluetooth. We don't usually do that, but I think it would be a good idea.
> > 
> > In fact I need bluez-util (to be able to run hciattach command also). And yes I also need wpa_supplicant for wifi.
> > So ok I will enable these two packages and add init script
> 
>  Question for the other BR developers (especially Peter): do you agree it's a
> good idea to make a non-minimal defconfig that includes bluez and wpa_supplicant?

Our board defconfig files are ususally just enough to bring up the board
and get a shell in there. If network is wired, then a dhcp client is OK
(usually udhcpc from busybox).

Everything (bluez and wpa-supplicant included) else is out of scope for
a defconfig, IMHO.

One case where I'd be inclined to accept more than the above is a
full-wireless device (like the soon-to-come-I-hope 96boards stuff).
But since wpa-supplicant needs configuration that we can't provide
(SSID and key), I don't see the point of adding it to the defconfig.

However, we've decided to accept "demo" defconfigs, which can be packed
with more features than a simple board defconfig. We haven't had any
single such demo defconfig submitted so far.

Still, even if we accept demo defconfigs, I stil think we should have a
small board defconfig file before we get a demo.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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