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5 Adding new embedded boards to OpenADK
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8 This section covers how support for new embedded boards
9 can be integrated into OpenADK.
11 First step is to create a board description file in
12 target/<arch>/systems with the short name of your embedded board.
14 For example you would create following file for Raspberry PI 2 support:
15 target/arm/systems/raspberry-pi2
17 config ADK_TARGET_SYSTEM_RASPBERRY_PI2
19 depends on ADK_TARGET_LITTLE_ENDIAN
20 select ADK_TARGET_CPU_ARM_CORTEX_A7
21 select ADK_TARGET_CPU_WITH_NEON
22 select ADK_TARGET_BOARD_BCM28XX
23 select ADK_TARGET_WITH_VGA
24 select ADK_TARGET_WITH_SERIAL
25 select ADK_TARGET_WITH_CPU_FREQ
26 select ADK_TARGET_WITH_USB
27 select ADK_TARGET_WITH_INPUT
28 select ADK_TARGET_WITH_SD
29 select ADK_TARGET_WITH_I2C
30 select ADK_TARGET_WITH_SPI
31 select ADK_TARGET_WITH_SMP
32 select ADK_PACKAGE_BCM28XX_BOOTLOADER
33 select ADK_TARGET_WITH_ROOT_RW
34 select ADK_TARGET_KERNEL_ZIMAGE
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39 You need to select as a minimum a CPU type and Kernel format.
40 If a bootloader is required you also need to select it.
41 (ADK_PACKAGE_BCM28XX_BOOTLOADER) If the bootloader does not exist as a package
42 in OpenADK, you need to port it first.
44 The hardware capabilities are optional. (f.e. ADK_TARGET_WITH_SD), but
45 required when you configure the driver configuration later.
47 For architectures with a choice for endianess you should depend on either
48 ADK_TARGET_LITTLE_ENDIAN or ADK_TARGET_BIG_ENDIAN.
50 If the CPU type like in this example ADK_TARGET_CPU_ARM_CORTEX_A7 is not yet available
51 you need to add it to target/config/Config.in.cpu. For optimized code generation
52 you should also add ADK_TARGET_GCC_CPU or ADK_TARGET_GCC_ARCH symbol for your CPU
53 type. Furthermore you need to decide if your CPU has a MMU, FPU and NPTL support
56 After the creation of the file you can go into the menu based system and
57 select your embedded board.
59 The second step is to create a Kernel configuration file fragment, which contains
60 only the basic support for your board to get serial console access.
62 For example the snippet for Raspberry PI 2, the file name must match the embedded board
64 target/arm/kernel/raspberry-pi2
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70 CONFIG_HAVE_ARM_ARCH_TIMER=y
73 CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS=y
74 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_643719=y
75 CONFIG_BCM2708_NOL2CACHE=y
76 CONFIG_RASPBERRYPI_FIRMWARE=y
77 CONFIG_BRCM_CHAR_DRIVERS=y
78 CONFIG_BCM2708_VCHIQ=y
79 CONFIG_BCM2708_VCMEM=y
84 CONFIG_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER=y
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87 If the mainstream kernel from kernel.org does not contain support for your board
88 you need to get a working kernel tree and create a patch.
89 For example for Raspberry PI 2 we basically use following method to create a patch:
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91 git clone https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git linux-rpi
92 wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.18.9.tar.xz
93 tar xvf linux-3.18.9.tar.xz
94 find linux-3.18.9 linux-rpi -type l -delete
96 diff -Nur linux-3.18.9 linux-rpi > target/arm/bcm28xx/patches/3.18.9/0001-bcm28xx-github.patch
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99 Normally you use target/<arch>/<target system>/patches/<kernelversion>/0001-<target-system>.patch.
100 In case of Raspberry PI 2 we have a single patch for Raspberry PI and Raspberry PI 2 and use
101 the extra board name bcm28xx to describe the family of devices.
103 After that you can build the toolchain, kernel and base system and write the resulting
104 firmware from firmware/<target system>/ to your device or boot via netboot and NFS.
106 If you have some special notes for your embedded board, please add some advise to
107 target/<arch>/Makefile. You can add information for the different rootfilesystem types.
109 If your system boots up fine to a shell, you can add the driver configuration.
110 For example if you add SD card driver support to Raspberry PI 2 you
111 would add following to target/linux/config/Config.in.block
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113 config ADK_LINUX_KERNEL_MMC_BCM2835
114 bool "SD card support for BCM2835 boards"
115 select ADK_LINUX_KERNEL_SCSI
116 select ADK_LINUX_KERNEL_MMC
117 select ADK_LINUX_KERNEL_MMC_BLOCK
118 select ADK_LINUX_KERNEL_BLK_DEV
119 select ADK_LINUX_KERNEL_BLK_DEV_SD
120 select ADK_LINUX_KERNEL_MMC_SDHCI
121 select ADK_LINUX_KERNEL_MMC_SDHCI_PLTFM
122 select ADK_LINUX_KERNEL_MMC_BCM2835_DMA
123 depends on ADK_TARGET_BOARD_BCM28XX
124 default y if ADK_TARGET_BOARD_BCM28XX
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128 We use the symbol prefix ADK_LINUX_KERNEL instead of CONFIG. Otherwise the symbols are
129 matching the kernel symbol names.
131 Get again into the menu based system, enable the driver you added and recompile.
132 If your driver is available as a kernel module use tristate.