[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] board: add support for ARM Juno r1 Development Board

Joao Pinto Joao.Pinto at synopsys.com
Fri Oct 9 15:53:14 UTC 2015


Dear Thomas,

Firstly let me congratulate you on your presentation in the Auditorium.

On 10/9/2015 4:48 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Joao Pinto,
> 
> On Fri,  9 Oct 2015 16:29:05 +0100, Joao Pinto wrote:
>> The Juno r1 ARM Development Platform (ADP) is a software development
>> platform for ARMv8-A, it includes the Juno r1 Versatile Express board 
>> and an ARMv8-A reference software port available through Linaro.
>>
>> Remark: The kernel' arm64 defconfig lacks a considerable amount of 
>> configuration items regarding the Juno r1 board, and that is the reason
>> of this custom kernel configuration file.
> 
> Can you add a readme.txt file in board/arm/junor1/ that explains how to
> use the result? You're building just a tarball for the root filesystem,
> what are the instructions to actually use it on the board?

I will add a readme.txt file. The Juno r1 accepts typically an ext formatted
pen-drive from where it mounts the root filesystem. The simplest procedure its
to untar the rootfs.tar to the pen-drive and give it a go.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas
> 

Thanks,
Joao



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