[Buildroot] Advice on new board support

[Buildroot] Advice on new board support

[Angelo Compagnucci]

Hi guys,

I'm preparing a patch for the Ariag25 SOM and its Terra carrier board
from http://acmesystems.it.
I made a working and minimal configuration for Ariag25 SOM in which I
enabled nothing more than a basic booting system.

For Terra, on the contrary, I'm building a more complex configuration
with dhcp, python and various other software, because Terra is a
carried board for rapid prototyping and the fairly basic configuration
of the plain simple Ariag25 is pretty useless on that.

I'm aiming for the inclusion of both configurations, but I think the
Terra one is really too big to be in configs. Right now I created a
board/acmesystems/ariag25 folder and placed the configuration there.

Is this the best way to get the patch accepted?

Thank you in advance!

Angelo

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[Buildroot] Advice on new board support

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

 Hi Angelo,

On 02/02/14 22:15, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm preparing a patch for the Ariag25 SOM and its Terra carrier board
> from http://acmesystems.it.
> I made a working and minimal configuration for Ariag25 SOM in which I
> enabled nothing more than a basic booting system.

 We would really appreciate if you send this config!

> 
> For Terra, on the contrary, I'm building a more complex configuration
> with dhcp, python and various other software, because Terra is a
> carried board for rapid prototyping and the fairly basic configuration
> of the plain simple Ariag25 is pretty useless on that.

 At last year's FOSDEM buildroot developer meeting, we decided to support
this type of scenario (see [1]). The config file should be named
something like ariag25_demo_terra_defconfig.


> 
> I'm aiming for the inclusion of both configurations, but I think the
> Terra one is really too big to be in configs. Right now I created a
> board/acmesystems/ariag25 folder and placed the configuration there.

 Support files should go into that folder, but the defconfig itself
should be in configs/

 Make sure that you submit the ariag25_defconfig and the
ariag25_demo_terra_defconfig as separate patches, and that the first
patch doesn't contain anything that isn't needed by the basic defconfig.

 Thanks a lot!


 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Is this the best way to get the patch accepted?
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> Angelo
> 


[1] http://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysELCE2013#Buildroot.config

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