[oe] support another hardware

[Cliff Brake]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Sledz, Steffen <sledz at dresearch.de> wrote:
> After Alex announced support for the hammerhead board we would try to add another hardware. It is the OXE810SE, an ARM926EJ-S based consumer network-attached storage (NAS) device (see <http://www.oxsemi.com/products/storage/OXE810SE.html>).
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> We have some experience with OE, made and fixed some bb recipes, but miss the experience in adding a complete new machine. Is there a guide line, manual, tutorial or something like this giving step-by-step help for this (and warning of the pitfalls)? I missed it in the wiki. The only documentation i found is this one: <http://bec-systems.com/oe/html/index.html>. But the part "Adding a new Machine" ist just a three bullet list. :(
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> I believe, the easiest part is writing the new machine config file. But all the stuff choosing the best kernel configuration (derived/integrated from/with others?) seems the hardest task in my opinion.

There is really not much more to it than create a machine conf, and a
kernel configuration.  For the kernel, the preferred approach seems to
be to use a generic linux-2.6.xx.bb recipe, and add your machine to
the version you support.  Occasionally, other packages will have
machine specific tweaks, but that is not required.

Cliff

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