[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] board: add support for ARC HS Development Kit (HSDK)

[Alexey Brodkin]

Hi Thomas, Peter, Arnout,

On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 10:58 +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 2017-12-19 at 17:55 +0300, Evgeniy Didin wrote:
> > Synopsys DesignWare HSDK (which stands for ARC HS
> > Development Kit) is the latest and greatest development
> > platform that sports quad-core ARC HS38 in real silicon.
> > 
> > Most noticeable features of the board are:
> >  * Quad-core ARC HS38 CPU running at 1GHz
> >  * 4Gb of DDR
> >  * Built-in Vivante GPU (well supported via open source
> >    Etnaviv drivers)
> >  * Built-in Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module (RedPine RS-9113)
> > 
> > And as usual we have:
> >  * [micro] SD-card slot
> >  * 2 USB 2.0 ports
> >  * 1Gbit Ethernet port
> >  * Built-in Digilent JTAG probe
> >  * Serial port accessible via micro-USB port
> > 
> > Writing sdcard.img on SDcard creates two partitions:
> >  * FAT32 with uImage and uboot.env
> >  * EXT4 with root filesystem
> > 
> > We modify kernel config because in default hsdk kernel config
> > CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE parameter is set and when we build
> > rootfs separately (BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS is not set)
> > error appears. Also we set up CONFIG_ARC_UBOOT_SUPPORT which
> > enables usage of uboot variables in the boot process.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Didin <didin at synopsys.com>
> > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> > Cc: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
> > Cc: arc-buildroot at synopsys.com
> > ---
> > Changes since v1:
> > -add entries in DEVELOPERS and .gitlab-ci.yml
> > -change genimage-hsdk.cfg to genimage.cfg
> > -enable BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_ENVIMAGE against mkenvimage in post-image.sh
> > -add renaming "uboot-env.bin" to "uboot.env" in post-image.sh
> > -changed tar to gzip when archiving sdcard.img
> 
> I'm worried if we can make it merged before the next Buildroot
> release. Any comments [except probably requirement to rebase as 
> it's been more than a month since v2 was posted] or/and suggestions on
> this one?

Please pardon myself for being that annoying but it looks like 2018.02-rc1
was recently cut and that patch is not there yet.

It would be really cool if we may still get this one merged ASAP so
it becomes a part of the upcoming release.

FWIW the board was now officially released, see 
https://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=arc-hs-development-kit
and we're looking forward to have more people working with that
quite capable board.

-Alexey