[Buildroot] [PATCH/next 0/5] Add support for MacchiatoBin board

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Wed Nov 15 15:59:15 UTC 2017


Hi Arnout,

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:58:43PM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 12-11-17 21:16, Sergey Matyukevich wrote:
> > This patchset adds support for SolidRun MacchiatoBin board based on
> > Marvell Armada 8040 SoC. For convenience the following two different
> > build configurations are added:
> > 
> > - mainline BSP
> >   mainline Linux v4.13.11 and U-Boot v2017.09
> > 
> > - vendor BSP (enables more hardware)
> >   BSP from Marvell based on Linux 4.4.52 and U-Boot v2017.03
> 
>  Do we really want to have defconfigs for both upstream and vendor BSP?
> Especially because we will also probably have a graphical defconfig later...
> This way, we end up with 3-4 defconfigs per board, for dozens of boards...
> 
>  That said, I do think it is useful to have both of these for this specific
> board. It's just that I'm afraid we're going to be overwhelmed by the number of
> defconfigs...
> 
>  What do the others think?

This board has no native graphic interface. So you can think of it as a basic 
(mainline) defconfig, and a fully featured (vendor) defconfig. This is similar 
to the basic and "demo" defconfigs that we have for other boards.

baruch

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