[Buildroot] Building system for the Marvell's ARMADA A385 borad to resolve the VLAN trunk issue

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 > The reason why I didn't submit a defconfig is because there is no
 > full-featured publicly available bootloader for these platforms. The
 > bootloader provided by Marvell is not publicly available (you have to
 > be a customer, and use an account to access their Extranet and download
 > the U-Boot sources). There is now some U-Boot support in the mainline
 > U-Boot, but I haven't tried it yet.

Ok, but I guess missing open u-boot support shouldn't be a deal
breaker. We already have a few defconfigs without bootloader config
(lego_ev3, openblocks_a6, s6lx9_microboard, ..).


 > So I could submit a huge bunch of defconfigs for all the Armada 370,
 > XP, 375, 38x and 39x platforms that I have (it would probably be 15 to
 > 20 defconfigs), but they would only differ by the name of the Device
 > Tree in the defconfig. All the rest would be exactly the same. So I
 > wasn't sure it was really worth adding 15 to 20 more defconfigs for a
 > configuration that doesn't include the bootloader and where all
 > configurations would be almost identical.

Couldn't we just do a single defconfig that builds all the dtb files and
then add a README describing what dtb / how to boot on the various
boards?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard