[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4] board/atmel/xplained/readme.txt: update documentation

Ludovic Desroches ludovic.desroches at atmel.com
Thu Mar 24 09:40:06 UTC 2016


Hi,

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 09:44:36AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:29:12 +0100, Ludovic Desroches wrote:
> > This documentation is not only dedicated to SAMA5D3 Xplained boards. The
> > procedure is the same for SAMA5D4 and SAMA5D2.
> > sfdisk, -u (--unit) option is obsolete on latest versions.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches at atmel.com>
> > ---
> >  board/atmel/xplained/readme.txt | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> There is some duplication of information between board/atmel/readme.txt
> (which also covers SAMA5 Xplained platforms) and
> board/atmel/xplained/readme.txt.
> 

I agree.

> Perhaps board/atmel/xplained/readme.txt should be removed entirely, and
> board/atmel/readme.txt contain all the information?
> 
> Seems like board/atmel/readme.txt covers how to flash on NAND, while
> board/atmel/xplained/readme.txt covers how to use a SD card based
> booting. Definitely not very clear when looking at the readme.txt
> location.
> 

I will try to do a quick merge.

> Another possible (but future, and unrelated) improvement is to use
> genimage to generate a ready-to-use SD card image, which automatically
> contains the VFAT and ext4 partitions.
> 

We have some scripts which do this but at the moment I am not sure they
can handle all possible errors. For sure, it will be great if we can
achieve it in the future.

Regards

Ludovic


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