u-boot/doc/develop/board_best_practices.rst
Tom Rini fa43709b8d doc: Begin adding a best practices document for board ports
To help guide developers down the right path, begin a document that
lists some best practices to follow when creating a new board port.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2023-08-09 08:41:52 +02:00

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Best Practices for Board Ports
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In addition to the regular best practices such as using :doc:`checkpatch` and
following the :doc:`docstyle` and the :doc:`codingstyle` there are some things
which are specific to creating a new board port.
* Implement :doc:`bootstd` to ensure that most operating systems will be
supported by the platform.
* The platform defconfig file must be generated via `make savedefconfig`.
* The Kconfig and Kbuild infrastructure supports using "fragments" that can be
used to apply changes on top of a defconfig file. These can be useful for
many things such as:
* Supporting different firmware locations (e.g. eMMC, SD, QSPI).
* Multiple board variants when runtime detection is not desired.
* Supporting different build types such as production and development.
Kconfig fragments should reside in the board directory itself rather than in
the top-level `configs/` directory.