configs: defconfigs for Atmel boards
Get series with b4
b4 am [email protected]Versions newest first
- v1 Latest0 of 8 patches 0 repliesNew
Patches in v1 No applies recorded yet
None of the 8 patches the cover letter announces are in this archive.
Reviews trailers per patch
No Reviewed-by, Acked-by or Tested-by trailers for v1 yet.
Cover letter [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/8] configs: defconfigs for Atmel boards
Quoted 10 lines · Thomas Petazzoni
Ryan, Alex,
Quoted 5 lines · Ryan Barnett
Since you are moving all of the Atmel boards to use NAND boot configuration, it would be good to have a 'README' that explains how to load the boards utilizing the SAM-BA tool (it appears all the NAND configurations are using this). At minimum it would be to point to Linux4SAM wiki for loading instructions.
Quoted 7 lines
Fully agreed.
Alexandre, please also include generating a NAND capable filesystem image as part of those defconfig, so that they can easily be flashed/used on the boards. I guess UBI images is going to be the most appropriate solution. But clearly, such defconfigs should not generate just a tarball.
Actually, I think it's better to use SD card images where possible.
- If you're using it just for experimentation, then the SD card is a much more flexible and less risky way to experiment. Personally, I even prefer kernel-linked-with-initramfs (and DTB) images, since that's just a single file and it automatically gives you the rest of the SD card as a FAT partition.
- If you want to use it for an actual product (prototype), then you're anyway going to have to study in a bit more detail how the flash works and you'll probably want to do a slightly more complicated flash partitioning.
That said, I do think it's really useful to have those tcl scripts for using
SAM-BA.
And of course, since I never use the defconfigs myself, my opinion is probably
not that important.
Regards,
Arnout
Signature · 6 lines
Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F