[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] board: add support for RIoTboard

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Nikolay Dimitrov,

On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 16:58:47 +0200, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:

> Not really. Now as you're asking, I found that I'm doing this by habit
> (probably inherited by some weird ARM board boot-requirements in the
> past).

Yes, some boards/bootloader configuration have the limitation that the
first partition must be a FAT partition. In this case, it definitely
makes sense to have two partitions, since a Linux root filesystem can
hardly be stored in a FAT filesystem.

> Would you prefer me to re-send the patch with instructions only for
> single partition layout?

Well, in the situation of this board, where the bootloader is stored
raw and is capable of reading an ext2 filesystem, yes I believe a
single partition makes more sense.

You can ask Buildroot to install the uImage and DTB to /boot in the
root filesystem. However, for the extlinux.config file, you'll have to
add a post-build script to do this.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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