[Buildroot] Building system for the Marvell's ARMADA A385 borad to resolve the VLAN trunk issue

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Sep 25 07:34:31 UTC 2015


Hello,

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:48:12 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > So I could submit a huge bunch of defconfigs for all the Armada 370,
>  > XP, 375, 38x and 39x platforms that I have (it would probably be 15 to
>  > 20 defconfigs), but they would only differ by the name of the Device
>  > Tree in the defconfig. All the rest would be exactly the same. So I
>  > wasn't sure it was really worth adding 15 to 20 more defconfigs for a
>  > configuration that doesn't include the bootloader and where all
>  > configurations would be almost identical.
> 
> Couldn't we just do a single defconfig that builds all the dtb files and
> then add a README describing what dtb / how to boot on the various
> boards?

Right, we could do that. But it's really as simple as taking some
random mainline kernel version and build mvebu_v7_defconfig. It's not a
defconfig that has a lot of added-value.

Thomas
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