[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,

>> Ok, and the Marvell u-boot supports zImage / separate dtb or do you need
 >> to play tricks with appended dtb?

 > Depends on the version of the bootloader. On modern ones (375, 38x)
 > there's no problem (except you need to set some magic fdt_skip_update
 > U-Boot variable to prevent the vendor U-Boot from doing nasty FDT
 > updates). On Armada 370/XP, the situation is a bit more complicated:
 > very old vendor bootloaders map registers at a different address than
 > recent bootloaders, and they don't all support FDT booting, so you have
 > to use appended DTB.

That kind of stuff would be useful for in a README ;) Also where the
bootloader searches for the files / SD card partitioning and so on.


 >> Anything related to the bootloader that is worthwhile documenting?

 > Lots :)

 > Actually, I've been thinking for some time doing some kind of
 > eLinux.org portal/page about the Marvell EBU boards, because there's
 > quite a few tricks.

Ok, that's also good. The Buildroot readme can also just refer to that
page.

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard