movuino-board-index

Movuino board index maintainer guide

How to add a new board

  1. Add your board info into board/<board-type>/boards.txt and update the version number in `board//platform.txt
  2. Make sure to include the correct bootloader for your board in board/<board-type>/bootloader. You can either duplicate one of the bootloader for the same architecture or add a custom one. For more info to customize a bootloader see How to customize a bootloader
  3. Compress the board/<board-type> folder you created or modified by running tar -jcvf <folder-path>.tar.bz2 <folder-path>
  4. Find the checksum of the archive by running shasum -a 256 <archive-path.tar.bz2>
  5. Modify package_movuino_index.json with informations about the new board and add the checksum you found earlier as well as the archive size in bytes.

In order to test locally, you can spin up a local web server with python by running python3 -m http.server in the root of the repo. Make sure the archives download links in package_movuino_index.json have been modified to use http://localhost:8000/.... You can then add http://localhost:8000/package_movuino_index.json in the settings of the arduino and test your work. Don’t forget to erase the Arduino Cache (~/Library/Arduino15/Cache/ on Mac) and to restart your Arduino IDE.

How to customize a bootloader

Adafruit nrf52 booloaders

  1. Clone adafruit nrf52 bootloaders repo: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Bootloader.git.
  2. To modify an already customized bootloader, find the patch file corresponding to the bootloader you want to edit located in the root of this repo at bootloaders/.
  3. Go to the adafruit nrf52 bootloader repo you just cloned and run git apply <patchfile-path>. This will add the movuino bootloader source files to the adafruit repo.
  4. Run make BOARD=<board-source-folder-name> all to compile the bootloader. You will need to have adafruit-nrfutils installed to created the bootloader in .zip format.
  5. The compiled bootloader in .hex and .zip can then be found in _build/
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