[Buildroot] [PATCH] configs: add nitrogen6sx_defconfig for Boundary Devices SoloX board

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Sep 19 13:34:10 UTC 2015


Gary,

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:00:09 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> This board is using the exact same kernel and u-boot revision as the
> Nitrogen6x. They also share the same u-boot "autoboot" script.
> 
> The differences between the two configurations are:
> - getty port is ttymxc0 instead of ttymxc1
> - uImage load address is 0x80008000

Do you have a reason to keep using uImage instead of using zImage?
uImage are now a bit deprecated on ARM, and zImage is the modern way of
booting the kernel even from U-Boot (using the bootz command).

> I didn't include this patch as part of the Freescale packages update
> as it is an addition. However this patch depends on the updates to be
> applied for graphics support and so on.
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-September/139278.html

No problem, I applied them already.

> I wish we could do an include of another defconfig, that'd simplify
> future config updates as it could look like:
> 
> include nitrogen6x_defconfig
> BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="ttymxc0"
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_UIMAGE_LOADADDR="0x80008000"
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="imx6sx-nitrogen6sx"
> 
> That would also be very useful for all the Freescale sabre boards
> where every config is almost the same apart from uboot configuration
> or device tree name.

Indeed. We don't have a solution for this in the upstream Buildroot.
However, people in this situation are encouraged to use the concept of
"defconfig" fragments, which can be merged together to give the final
defconfig.

I've applied your patch.

Thanks!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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