Even though Northstart platform support is well upstreamed it may always
happen that some kernel change affects/breaks something. It's a good
practice to specify fixed versions for kernel & Linux headers.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Starting with kernel release v6.5 ARM DTS files are placed in vendor
subdirectories (Linux commit 724ba6751532 ("ARM: dts: Move .dts files to
vendor sub-directories")).
This fixes:
make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm4708-smartrg-sr400ac.dtb'. Stop.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1384: bcm4708-smartrg-sr400ac.dtb] Error 2
make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-luxul-xwr-3150-v1.dtb'. Stop.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1384: bcm47094-luxul-xwr-3150-v1.dtb] Error 2
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Broadcom Northstar family of SoCs is most commonly used for home
routers. It's an ARM platform with Cortex-A9 CPU(s).
All known Northstar devices come with CFE bootloader which almost
always expects a TRX firmware format (with exception for D-Link). Some
vendors (like Luxul and Netgear) wrap TRX in their own containers.
This board code provides:
1. Minimal kernel with support for on-SoC blocks. It enables Linux
drivers for SoC, watchdog, Ethernet, switch, USB, PCIe, LEDs).
2. Post image script building firmware images. In uses Buildroot
packages tools (lzma_alone, otrx, lxlfw) to build
bootloader-compatible images that can be flashed.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Reviewed-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
