[Buildroot] [PATCH] configs: add RaspberryPi defconfig

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Jan 11 10:02:31 UTC 2013


Dear Maxime Hadjinlian,

On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:55:25 +0100, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote:
> This is a default configuration for the RaspberryPi, tested and
> functionnal.
> 
> The kernel used is the one developped by the RaspberryPi foundation
> as it's not supported currently in mainline kernel.

Technically speaking, there is a beginning of support in mainline for
the RasberryPi. But very few peripherals are supported as of today, so
I agree that a Buildroot defconfig for RasberryPi should use the
out-of-tree kernel for now.

> The configuration used for the kernel is the default bcmrpi.
> 
> Note that the kernel generated is a zImage but it must be renamed to
> kernel.img to work.

Could you add a board/rasberrypi/README.txt that explains a few things
like how the different images in output/images/ should be layed out in
a SD card, that the kernel image needs to be renamed, etc. If a good
online resource is available, you can just put a link to it.

Thanks!

Thomas
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