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| − | = Discussion around the organization of the Buildroot manual =
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| − | == Proposed organization ==
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| − | == List of topics that must be covered ==
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| − | * Configuration
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| − | ** Explain the impact of the target architecture variant selection
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| − | ** Explain the toolchain backends
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| − | ** Explain the init systems
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| − | ** Explain the /dev management strategies. Explain custom device tables.
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| − | ** Explain the configuration of the kernel, and real-time extensions
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| − | ** Explain the root filesystem types, with specific details on the special initramfs case
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| − | ** Explain usage of the board/ directory
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| − | ** Explain usage of post-build scripts, give examples (set a root password, etc.), and explain why it's better than custom target skeletons.
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| − | * How to add new packages
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| − | ** The different package infrastructures
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| − | ** Details on autotools-package infrastructure, on cmake-package infrastructure, generic-package infrastructure
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| − | ** Details on how to write the Config.in files: when 'depends on' should be used, when 'select' should be used. How to properly handle dependencies on toolchain features (RPC, locale, etc.)
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| − | ** Details on hooks
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| − | ** Details on adding patches to packages
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| − | ** Details on adding licensing information to packages
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| − | ** Details on gettext/libiconv handling
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| − | * Contribution
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| − | ** How to report bugs (bug tracker, IRC). Explain to include the .config file + 100-200 last lines of build log after doing a complete 'make clean; make'
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| − | ** How to send patches.
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