[Buildroot] [PATCH] board: add support for ZII VF610 Development Board

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Aug 26 13:44:18 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:41:19 -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:

> > Is this board publicly available?
> >
> > Your patch looks good and perfectly matches the Buildroot way of having
> > minimal defconfigs. But if the board is not publicly available, I'm not
> > sure we want a defconfig for it in Buildroot.  
> 
> This board is quite specific and not meant to be sold to the public,
> hovewer the Device Tree is opened and already mainlined. It is used as a
> reference platform for DSA with its 3 interconnected Marvell switches.
> 
> The bootloader and kernel support are available, so I saw no reason not
> to glue that all together. Given what you said, we can forget about this
> board. At least, its support is now in the wild ;-)

I don't know how much we want defconfig for such platforms in
Buildroot, but my opinion on that is definitely not clear cut. So let's
see what others have to say about this.

That being said, shall I gather from this that some products from
Zodiac Aerospace are using Buildroot? :-)

Thanks,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com


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