[Buildroot] Support of iMX6 hardware ?

Samuel Martin s.martin49 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 08:55:41 UTC 2012


Hi Thomas,

2012/12/7 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Dear Samuel Martin,
>
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 09:35:33 +0100, Samuel Martin wrote:
>
>> Some people around Buildroot, like the Armadeus folks, have already
>> done part of the imx-lib integration.
>> It seems they presently support imx-lib for both imx27 and imx51.
>>
>> You could certainly give a look at their work, might be usefull ;-):
>> http://armadeus.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=armadeus/armadeus;a=blob;f=patches/buildroot/2012.11/174-imx-lib-add_package.patch;hb=HEAD
>
> Any idea why they don't submit their work upstream?
>
> They have a huge number of patches for Buildroot in
> http://armadeus.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=armadeus/armadeus;a=tree;f=patches/buildroot/2012.11;hb=HEAD
> and they don't submit anything. It's sad.

They are working on it, see:
http://www.armadeus.com/wiki/index.php?title=Buildroot_Mainline_integration

And here, the WIP branch of what I've already done, and I plan to post shortly:
https://github.com/tSed/buildroot/commits/sma/armadeus-integration


It's just a slow process, not necessarly time-to-market-friendly at
first look! ;-)


Regards,

-- 
Sam



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