Creating a custom device

During our journey, you learned how to retrieve the source code and how to set up the build system. In this section, you are going to learn how to create a new target device and add it to the build system. The device we are going to create now has specific hardware features. It's a proof-of-concept device, with the only purpose of showing you how easily and quickly you can create a brand new device and then customize it.

Every device definition is contained in the device/ folder. First level folders contains all the manufacturer's folders. Every manufacturer folder contains its own devices. Let's create our own manufacturer and device folders: our brand is Irarref and our model is an F488. Open a Terminal, reach the WORKING_DIRECTORY folder, and run:

~$ mkdir –p device/irarref/f488

Once we have the folder structure in place, we need to create all those files that will allow the build system to detect our device and make it available as a target...