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Upstreaming to Buildroot #58

Closed bbros-dev closed 4 years ago

bbros-dev commented 4 years ago

Is there a technical or functional reason your BB related kernels, uboot, rootfs, packages etc haven't been up-streamed into BuildRoot a machine/board? Specifically, I am wondering if I was to try to create a BuildRoot machine def if I should expect to hit headaches?

It appears that buildroot could save me some hassle, but I've yet to use it in anger.

On a closer look it seemed to me that Yocto is overkill for a BB build.

RobertCNelson commented 4 years ago

Long Story @bbros-dev , but when I originally started working on Debian for the BeagleBoard "Family" about 10 years ago, there was many Buildroot and Yocto Developers maintaining those sub-projects for Buildroot and Yocto... But no one for Debian...

So my personal Goal was to get Debian to the same level as Buildroot/Yocto.. ;)

So now, 10 years later... Opps..

Regards,

bbros-dev commented 4 years ago

Thanks again for all the work you've put in. You're right: now your repo's are alive a well and there is no BeagleBone in buildroot.

Would it help you to have a buildroot config? If so I could likely help with some of the initial work.

At the moment I'm building something for my son to use, so not sure how long I'll have my hands in this space, and I'm cautious about leaving something behind that is effectively an additional maintenance burden.

It might lessen newbie questions like mine, but I'm not familiar enough with this user space to know where the pain points typically are.

RobertCNelson commented 4 years ago

There is this one:

https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/blob/master/configs/beaglebone_defconfig

bbros-dev commented 4 years ago

I was sure I looked ;)