From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:51:36 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/6] Add config file for the snowball board In-Reply-To: <509B6D2A.90408@calao-systems.com> References: <1351500073-4351-1-git-send-email-gregory.hermant@calao-systems.com> <1351500073-4351-2-git-send-email-gregory.hermant@calao-systems.com> <50905017.8080301@mind.be> <509B6D2A.90408@calao-systems.com> Message-ID: <509C61A8.8040901@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 11/08/12 09:28, Gr?gory Hermant wrote: > Le 30/10/2012 23:09, Arnout Vandecappelle a ?crit : >> On 10/29/12 09:41, Gregory Hermant wrote: [snip] >>> +BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="ttyAMA2" >>> +BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_CONFIG="board/calao/snowball/busybox-1.20.x.config" >> >> This file should be created in the same patch, otherwise this defconfig >> isn't working. >> >> Also, is it really necessary to have a custom busybox config? >> > I need to enable the mdev loading firmware support. > I will change the snowball defconfig file in order to use mdev. Yes, if you select BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_MDEV then mdev will automatically be selected in busybox. [snip] >>> +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INSTALL_TARGET=y >> >> Why? >> > To load the kernel from the rootfs partition hence the boot partition > could be removed. Yes, that was actually obvious, I was stupid to ask it. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F