[Buildroot] Advice on a board support

[Angelo Compagnucci]

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for the promptly reply.

> The Git tree you pointed at is unfortunately not a kernel Git tree
> which you can directly point Buildroot at. It's a tree that contains
> kernel patches, so Buildroot cannot do much with this. However, since
> the number of patches is rather small, you can simply copy them in
> Buildroot in board/olimex/<boardname>/, and point Buildroot to this
> directory for the kernel patches.

Yep. That was the problem. I'm aware of the kernel programming in
general (I have a driver in mainline tree), but cannot understand if
simply copying some spare patches was the way. Probably I should force
the kernel version in the configuration, is this correct?

> Note that the patches in this tree look a bit weird: there are some
> patches for AT91 SOCs, and some other patches for i.MX SOCs.

Yes, it's weird. Probably the best way is to make myself a git kernel
tree with these patches applied.

> Another option is to find a real kernel Git tree that works for your
> platform. Or even better, the mainline kernel!

I don't know why these patches are not in mainline kernel tree,
probably I will look at it better.

Thank you for your time!

Sincerly Angelo.

>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com



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