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Tron Volta
Tron Volta

Reputation: 103

utility to make uboot customization/building easy?

Is there a quick and dirty application or script somewhere that allows me to customize uboot relatively painless and fast?

At current state, to my limited understanding, this is what I need to do if I wanted to build my own bootloder using uboot: I have to first be an intermediate level expert on GNU make as well as makefile scripting, then I have to study extensively the makefiles of uboot in order to decide what "child" makefiles I must include and what are the lines I need to get commented. I could be easily looking at either an 100 hour college course equivalent of study period, or a 4 month long learning curve.

The thing is, I'm not using ready-made boards like Raspberry Pi, I'm trying to build my own board with widely used components readily available in the market. My board would be similar to a lot of devboards out there but it's not gonna have a doppelganger with all the same properties/specs, so I pretty much have to build my own bootloader from uboot.

Ideas? Or did I get completely the wrong idea?

Anyway if this is going to be way too time-consuming I suppose I'll use RPi whatnot.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 108

Answers (1)

Tom Rini
Tom Rini

Reputation: 2173

You've got the wrong idea. It's a combination of a Kconfig-style .config and editing the include/config/boardname.h header file that you create based on the reference platform that you start with for your board (even if not starting with a reference HW design and customizing you should pick a best-fit for the SoC that already exists and go from there).

Upvotes: 2

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