Commit 1ee5dccd authored by Thomas De Schampheleire's avatar Thomas De Schampheleire Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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manual/developer guide: minor rework of 'adding board support' section 



Minor rework of the section 'Creating your own board support', as follows:
- Rename section into 'Adding support for a particular board'
- Modify introduction
- Refer to Project-specific customizations chapter

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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docs/manual/adding-board-support.txt

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[[customize-store-board-support]]

== Creating your own board support

[[adding-board-support]]

== Adding support for a particular board



Creating your own board support in Buildroot allows users of a

particular hardware platform to easily build a system that is known to

work.

Buildroot contains basic configurations for several publicly available

hardware boards, so that users of such a board can easily build a system

that is known to work. You are welcome to add support for other boards

to Buildroot too.



To do so, you need to create a normal Buildroot configuration that

builds a basic system for the hardware: toolchain, kernel, bootloader,
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create a directory +board/<manufacturer>+ and a subdirectory

+board/<manufacturer>/<boardname>+. You can then store your patches

and configurations in these directories, and reference them from the main

Buildroot configuration.
 
Buildroot configuration. Refer to xref:customize[] for more details.

docs/manual/customize.txt

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[[customize]]

== Project-specific customization



Typical actions you may need to perform for a given project are: