[Buildroot] Advice on a board support

François Perrad francois.perrad at gadz.org
Thu Oct 3 17:02:21 UTC 2013


2013/10/3 Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently I discovered the OLinuxIno nano board form Olimex and I
> really loved every corner of that!
>
> Now I really want to build a rootfs with buildroot, but unfortunately
> I discovered the board is not supported.
>

Since BR-2013.08, imx233_olinuxino was added (see
http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/board/olimex/imx233_olinuxino)
I think that covers MAXI, MINI, MICRO, NANO variants (but not their
A13, A10S, A20 Allwinner based boards)

François

> I really would like to contribute to the buildroot project supporting
> this board, but this will be my first contribution. I read several
> docs and I have a last question open.
>
> To make this board fully operative, several patches should be applied
> to some specific versions of the linux kernel. Patches are ready
> available[1] but how integrate them with boildroot?
>
> So my question is: what is the recommended way to support this new platform?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/RobertCNelson/armv5_devel/tree/v3.11.x-imxv5/patches
>
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