[Buildroot] [PATCH/next 4/5] solidrun/macchiatobin: add new board

Sergey Matyukevich geomatsi at gmail.com
Mon Nov 13 19:51:45 UTC 2017


> > +BR2_TARGET_ARMADA_FIRMWARE=y
> > +BR2_TARGET_ARMADA_FIRMWARE_IMAGE="mrvl_scp_bl2_8040.img"
> > +BR2_TARGET_ARMADA_FIRMWARE_VERSION="binaries-marvell-armada-17.10"
> 
> It turns out that this firmware is not required, at least for the mainline 
> kernel. The system boots just fine without it. It might be needed for the 
> Marvell provided kernel. I didn't check that.

Thanks for checking! I followed BSP HOWTO at http://wiki.macchiatobin.net.
But it looks slightly outdated since it refers to 17.06 versions for all
the repositories. I will check both mainline and vendor BSPs to clarify
whether it is needed at all.

Regards,
Sergey


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