[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] cubieboard2: update board defconfig
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Dec 29 17:04:11 UTC 2015
Dear Erico Nunes,
On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 23:52:05 -0200, Erico Nunes wrote:
> This patch updates the Cubieboard2 board defconfig to use newer u-boot
> and linux versions, along with a few other improvements.
> The other improvements were mostly backported from the recent Orange Pi
> defconfig inclusion and are related to image generation.
> linux-sunxi.org was used as a reference for both linux and u-boot
> defconfig names.
>
> In detail:
> - Update linux to vanilla upstream -- currently 4.3.3 is the most
> up-to-date. Although it lacks some features present only in the
> linux-sunxi 3.4 branch, upstream support appears to be relatively mature
> and is already being deployed by default by distributions such as Arch
> Linux ARM.
> - Update u-boot to vanilla upstream 2015.10. According to
> linux-sunxi.org, upstream fully supports major functions (except NAND)
> since 2015.07.
> - Change image format to zImage and drop custom image generation script
> in favour of genimage, as pointed out by reviewers in the Orange Pi
> defconfig submission.
>
> This was tested in a Cubieboard2 board with boot from mmc and it boots
> fine to login prompt.
>
> This has not been tested in a Cubieboard (A10) as I don't own any; the
> version bumps probably apply to it although there are some differences
> (lack of VFPv4 support, Cortex-A8 instead of Cortex-A7), so I have kept
> the current Cubieboard defconfig and its scripts. This one has been only
> build-tested.
>
> Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico at gmail.com>
> ---
> board/cubietech/cubieboard2/boot.cmd | 5 +++
> board/cubietech/cubieboard2/genimage.cfg | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++
> board/cubietech/cubieboard2/post-build.sh | 11 +++++++
> board/cubietech/cubieboard2/post-image.sh | 16 +++++++++
> configs/cubieboard2_defconfig | 54 +++++++++++++------------------
> 5 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 board/cubietech/cubieboard2/boot.cmd
> create mode 100644 board/cubietech/cubieboard2/genimage.cfg
> create mode 100755 board/cubietech/cubieboard2/post-build.sh
> create mode 100755 board/cubietech/cubieboard2/post-image.sh
Thanks a lot, I've applied, after a minor tweak on the commit title.
Thanks again!
Thomas
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