[oe] Adding support for our

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Fri Oct 17 21:22:38 UTC 2008


Hi, 

>> We have a new AVR32 based embedded linux board
> (www.miromico.com/hammerhead), which is available now. 
> That is a nice little board you have there. I personally like the AVR32
> architecture. Atmel also has the better policy when it comes to
> specifications. So I really like to see more AVR32 being used. :)

Thanks.
> 
>> We would like to use OpenEmbedded as our major build system to allow our
> customers to build their u-boot, 
>> kernel and rootfs.
> Great stuff. OE already supports the ATNGW100 (have one here) and the
> AT32STK1000. If your board can boot with the same linux 2.6.24 (or with
> patches to that) it will be quite easy to support your device.

Yes, I know. I have an ATNGW100 as well. The problem is, that the oe for
atngw100 
fails. It does compile (console-image), but I can't boot. I get a segfault
in init (sysvinit).

> 
>> Is there such a thing as a board maintainer in oe? If yes, how can we
> become one?
> We have a "MAINTAINERS" file. If you are a contributor you can add
> information about the machines you are maintaining. This mainly means
> that people will ask you when stuff breaks. In theory it should also
> mean that people will ask you *first* if things are changed in OE that
> affect your device but AFAIK we have no strict policies regarding this.

Ok, I'll check that out...

Alex





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