manual/developer guide: minor rework of 'adding board support' section
authorThomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:39:25 +0000 (21:39 +0200)
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:41:12 +0000 (19:41 +0200)
Minor rework of the section 'Creating your own board support', as follows:
- Rename section into 'Adding support for a particular board'
- Modify introduction
- Refer to Project-specific customizations chapter

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
docs/manual/adding-board-support.txt
docs/manual/customize.txt

index 88fd290f6b84455100139c10cc246fbc17290881..f6d74ae1f4cc8e32d036fef15d96a138f1c5bb3e 100644 (file)
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 // -*- mode:doc; -*-
 // vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
 
-[[customize-store-board-support]]
-== Creating your own board support
+[[adding-board-support]]
+== Adding support for a particular board
 
-Creating your own board support in Buildroot allows users of a
-particular hardware platform to easily build a system that is known to
-work.
+Buildroot contains basic configurations for several publicly available
+hardware boards, so that users of such a board can easily build a system
+that is known to work. You are welcome to add support for other boards
+to Buildroot too.
 
 To do so, you need to create a normal Buildroot configuration that
 builds a basic system for the hardware: toolchain, kernel, bootloader,
@@ -34,4 +35,4 @@ configuration or patches specific to your target platform. To do so,
 create a directory +board/<manufacturer>+ and a subdirectory
 +board/<manufacturer>/<boardname>+. You can then store your patches
 and configurations in these directories, and reference them from the main
-Buildroot configuration.
+Buildroot configuration. Refer to xref:customize[] for more details.
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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // -*- mode:doc; -*-
 // vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
 
+[[customize]]
 == Project-specific customization
 
 Typical actions you may need to perform for a given project are: