Are there any more recents updates?
Hi @TomorrowTech,
The Buildroot integration is under community contributed maintenance by @aduskett, see GitHub - mendersoftware/buildroot-mender: Buildroot community board integrations for Mender.
We are not providing official maintenance or development for it, sorry.
Greetz,
Josef
Ok,
so what do you suggest as possible solution if i need to add the mender layer to a custom buildroot, which is the best option to choose from?
I already tried Yocto and failed completely.
Hi @TomorrowTech,
it really depends a bit. If you want to stick with buildroot, then the best place to start is the repository which I linked, make sure that it works for the example machine, as well as the BSP by your board supplier, make sure that this also works, and then combine the two. Maybe @aduskett or @pamolloy have additional pointers.
However, “using Buildroot because failed to use Yocto” is hardly ever a good strategy. You should choose a build system upon requirements first, like, how does the application stack look like, how is it maintained, how does the product look like, how long will it be maintained, with which strategy… then you’ll usually be down to one or two choices anyways. Plus, using something which the board vendor actively supports is usually a good starting point, because it spares you the effort of creating a BSP first.
So if you could provide a few details, like, which board, which vendor, how do your requirements look like, what kind of experience you have, and eventually which problems or errors you are seeing, then somebody might be able to help.
Up to that, its quite complicated to give good advice.
Greetz,
Josef