NCS 2.7 Create new board wizard

RE: NCS 2.7 Create new board wizard

Charlie — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:35:47 GMT

Good to hear! Have a nice weekend.

Best regards,

Charlie

RE: NCS 2.7 Create new board wizard

Jason — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:35:43 GMT

It's working in 2.8 and it shows all the boards

And when I now change to 2.7.0 again, It is also now showing all the boards.

Very strange. Maybe I just needed to change toolchain (or something)

anyway, thanks for your help!

RE: NCS 2.7 Create new board wizard

Jason — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:26:18 GMT

No, my mistake, it's working in 2.8.0

RE: NCS 2.7 Create new board wizard

Jason — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:24:23 GMT

It's the same in NCS2.8.0

RE: NCS 2.7 Create new board wizard

Jason — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:22:43 GMT

I tried moving the existing Avilon840 folder but it didnt show up

I then tried making a new AvilonTest board and it asks me for "the name of the company who made the board" so I enter my company name. And then it gives the same folder structure.

I'll try with NCS2.8

RE: NCS 2.7 Create new board wizard

Charlie — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:15:19 GMT

Try to put it under a boards as Myproject/boards/Avilon840.

RE: NCS 2.7 Create new board wizard

Jason — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:50:00 GMT

I checked again after restarting the machine but it's not there.

It put it into

MyProject/CompanyName/Avilon840

whereas the previous boards went into

Myproject/arm/avilon4

I think I followed the same procedure to make it

I'll try NCS2.8.0

Thanks for your help. Have a good weekend!

RE: NCS 2.7 Create new board wizard

Charlie — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:39:16 GMT

Ok, did you put the custom board folder under yourporject/boards folder? You need to refresh to load the new folder sometimes, just try to close and open vs code to see if you can find your custom boards form dropdown list.

We have just release NCS 2.8.0 yesterday, which seem does not have changes on HWMv2 according to nRF Connect SDK v2.8.0 Release Notes.

Best regards,

Charlie

RE: NCS 2.7 Create new board wizard

Jason — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:29:50 GMT

Hi Charlie, thanks for your reply.

The screenshot software wouldn't take the snapshot with the dropdown. But I tried to make a board called avilon840 and it didn't appear in the dropdown.

The boards I've made in the past are all listed. I think it's a bug.

I will wait for the next NCS version and try again when it's released. I tried to look on devzone for other people having the same issue, but I didn't find any, so I wanted to report what I found in case it was a bug that wasn't logged. (or I had misunderstood!)

Thanks again.

Kind regards,

-Jason

RE: NCS 2.7 Create new board wizard

Charlie — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:23:52 GMT

Hi Jason,

Thanks for checking with us. Let me comment on your questions one by one.

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it doesnt appear in the list when I want to add it as a build configuration.

Its not in this dropdown

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It is a bit confusing, your second picture does show your custom board "avionv4" on the dropdown list and chosen as default board. Do I missunderstand your problem?

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also the files generated for the board look a bit strange. See zip attached

For example, the compatible in the dts file isn't the board name, it's "custom-board-name"

when I look at the files, I cannot see what's different to make it HWMv2 compliant

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The "custom-board-name" in the compatible field sounds likely a placeholder and it should be replaced with your actual board name. I will report to our developer to see if this is intented.

The main differences for HWMv2 compliance are in the file structure and naming conventions. According to the Board Porting Guide, HWMv2 introduces support for multi-core, multi-arch AMP SoCs, multi-SoC boards, and removes arbitrary uses of Kconfig and folder names.For nRF52840 customer board, which is singal-core, single SoC on board, this is proberly not easy to see dramatic change. You can refer to Migrating to the current hardware model and Zephyr borads folder to learn more about it.

Best regards,

Charlie