[Buildroot] [PATCH] board/boundarydevices: add promote buildroot-external-boundary project

[Buildroot] [PATCH] board/boundarydevices: add promote buildroot-external-boundary project

[Romain Naour]

It may be useful for users using Boundary Devices boards to find
more advanced defconfigs that the one provided by Buildroot.

See:
https://github.com/boundarydevices/buildroot-external-boundary#configurations-details

Update the readme.txt to add the link to the br2_external maintained
by Boundary Devices.

Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
Cc: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com>
---
 board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt b/board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt
index d1bb3fa598..62bc0d3f81 100644
--- a/board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt
+++ b/board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt
@@ -40,3 +40,13 @@ Where 'sdX' is the device node of the uSD partition.
 To upgrade u-boot, cancel autoboot and type:
 
 > run upgradeu
+
+See Boundary Devices's buildroot-external-boundary project
+for additional and advanced defconfigs using Qt5, gstreamer,
+NXP proprietary packages with demo applications:
+
+https://github.com/boundarydevices/buildroot-external-boundary
+
+Only some stable Buildroot releases are supported (2017.08.x,
+2018.02.x, 2020.08.x). Using another Buildroot version may
+requires some work.
-- 
2.21.3

[Buildroot] [PATCH] board/boundarydevices: add promote buildroot-external-boundary project

[Gary Bisson]

Hi Romain,

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 01:56:51PM +0100, Romain Naour wrote:
> It may be useful for users using Boundary Devices boards to find
> more advanced defconfigs that the one provided by Buildroot.
> 
> See:
> https://github.com/boundarydevices/buildroot-external-boundary#configurations-details
> 
> Update the readme.txt to add the link to the br2_external maintained
> by Boundary Devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
> Cc: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com>
> ---
>  board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt b/board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt
> index d1bb3fa598..62bc0d3f81 100644
> --- a/board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt
> +++ b/board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt
> @@ -40,3 +40,13 @@ Where 'sdX' is the device node of the uSD partition.
>  To upgrade u-boot, cancel autoboot and type:
>  
>  > run upgradeu
> +
> +See Boundary Devices's buildroot-external-boundary project
> +for additional and advanced defconfigs using Qt5, gstreamer,
> +NXP proprietary packages with demo applications:
> +
> +https://github.com/boundarydevices/buildroot-external-boundary
> +
> +Only some stable Buildroot releases are supported (2017.08.x,
> +2018.02.x, 2020.08.x). Using another Buildroot version may
> +requires some work.

s/requires/require

I'm actually not sure if this warning is necessary. I' don't mind having
people opening issues in the repo if they want to use another version.
If we see several requests for another branch we'll move the task higher
up our todo list ;)

Thanks for the patch. Hope those configurations have been useful.

Note that the plan is to merge 8MP GA release (NXP "5.4.70_2.3.0") in
time for 2021.02 and have that branch supported.

Regards,
Gary

[Buildroot] [PATCH] board/boundarydevices: add promote buildroot-external-boundary project

[Romain Naour]

Hi Gary,

Le 23/12/2020 ? 14:35, Gary Bisson a ?crit?:
> Hi Romain,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 01:56:51PM +0100, Romain Naour wrote:
>> It may be useful for users using Boundary Devices boards to find
>> more advanced defconfigs that the one provided by Buildroot.
>>
>> See:
>> https://github.com/boundarydevices/buildroot-external-boundary#configurations-details
>>
>> Update the readme.txt to add the link to the br2_external maintained
>> by Boundary Devices.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
>> Cc: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com>
>> ---
>>  board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt | 10 ++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt b/board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt
>> index d1bb3fa598..62bc0d3f81 100644
>> --- a/board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt
>> +++ b/board/boundarydevices/common/readme.txt
>> @@ -40,3 +40,13 @@ Where 'sdX' is the device node of the uSD partition.
>>  To upgrade u-boot, cancel autoboot and type:
>>  
>>  > run upgradeu
>> +
>> +See Boundary Devices's buildroot-external-boundary project
>> +for additional and advanced defconfigs using Qt5, gstreamer,
>> +NXP proprietary packages with demo applications:
>> +
>> +https://github.com/boundarydevices/buildroot-external-boundary
>> +
>> +Only some stable Buildroot releases are supported (2017.08.x,
>> +2018.02.x, 2020.08.x). Using another Buildroot version may
>> +requires some work.
> 
> s/requires/require
> 
> I'm actually not sure if this warning is necessary. I' don't mind having
> people opening issues in the repo if they want to use another version.
> If we see several requests for another branch we'll move the task higher
> up our todo list ;)

Ok if you prefer removing this warning. Anyway this can be expected by using a
br2_external tree :)

> 
> Thanks for the patch. Hope those configurations have been useful.

Those defconfig are a good starting point for full featured configuration (IMHO).

> 
> Note that the plan is to merge 8MP GA release (NXP "5.4.70_2.3.0") in
> time for 2021.02 and have that branch supported.

Yes that a good plan :)

Best regards,
Romain


> 
> Regards,
> Gary
>