[Buildroot] Building system for the Marvell's ARMADA A385 borad to resolve the VLAN trunk issue
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Fri Sep 25 08:57:59 UTC 2015
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
Hi,
>> Ok, and the Marvell u-boot supports zImage / separate dtb or do you need
>> to play tricks with appended dtb?
> Depends on the version of the bootloader. On modern ones (375, 38x)
> there's no problem (except you need to set some magic fdt_skip_update
> U-Boot variable to prevent the vendor U-Boot from doing nasty FDT
> updates). On Armada 370/XP, the situation is a bit more complicated:
> very old vendor bootloaders map registers at a different address than
> recent bootloaders, and they don't all support FDT booting, so you have
> to use appended DTB.
That kind of stuff would be useful for in a README ;) Also where the
bootloader searches for the files / SD card partitioning and so on.
>> Anything related to the bootloader that is worthwhile documenting?
> Lots :)
> Actually, I've been thinking for some time doing some kind of
> eLinux.org portal/page about the Marvell EBU boards, because there's
> quite a few tricks.
Ok, that's also good. The Buildroot readme can also just refer to that
page.
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Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard
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