From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>, buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH V2] board/broadcom: add support for Northstar platform devices
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 23:51:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220803235151.2a1d840b@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220310121229.18284-1-zajec5@gmail.com>
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:12:29 +0100
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
>
> Broadcom Northstar family of SoCs is most commonly used for home
> routers. It's an ARM platform with Cortex-A9 CPU(s).
>
> All known Northstar devices come with CFE bootloader which almost always
> expects a TRX firmware format (with exception for D-Link). Some vendors
> (like Luxul and Netgear) wrap TRX in their own containers.
>
> This board code provides:
>
> 1. Minimal kernel with support for on-SoC blocks
> It enables Linux drivers for SoC, watchdog, Ethernet, switch, USB,
> PCIe, LEDs).
>
> 2. Post image script building firmware images
> In uses Buildroot packages tools (lzma_alone, otrx, lxlfw) to build
> bootloader-compatible images that can be flashed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> ---
> Previous attempt:
> [PATCH] board/broadcom: add support for Northstar platform devices
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20210810131236.18022-1-zajec5@gmail.com/
Applied to master after renaming ns to northstar:
board/broadcom/northstar, configs/broadcom_northstar_defconfig.
Thanks!
Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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2022-03-10 12:12 [Buildroot] [PATCH V2] board/broadcom: add support for Northstar platform devices Rafał Miłecki
2022-07-28 22:08 ` Giulio Benetti
2022-08-03 21:51 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
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