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+This is the buildroot board support for the Avnet Zedboard. The Zedboard is
+a development board based on the Xilinx Zynq-7000 based All-Programmable
+System-On-Chip.
+
+Zedboard information including schematics, reference designs, and manuals are
+available from http://www.zedboard.org .
+
+To boot the Zedboard using a buildroot generated image copy the following files
+to the sdcard:
+	zynq-zed.dtb -> devicetree.dtb
+	rootfs.cpio.gz.uboot -> uramdisk.image.gz
+	uImage -> uImage
+
diff --git a/configs/zedboard_defconfig b/configs/zedboard_defconfig
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+BR2_arm=y
+BR2_cortex_a9=y
+BR2_ARM_ENABLE_NEON=y
+
+# Lock to 3.8 headers as the kernel is based off 3.8
+BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_VERSION=y
+BR2_DEFAULT_KERNEL_VERSION="3.8"
+
+BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="ttyPS0"
+
+# Kernel
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT=y
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_URL="git://github.com/Xilinx/linux-xlnx.git"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION="xilinx-v14.5"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="xilinx_zynq"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_UIMAGE_LOADADDR="0x8000"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_SUPPORT=y
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="zynq-zed"
+
+# Root filesystem
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_GZIP=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_UIMAGE=y
+
+# Bootloader
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT=y
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BOARDNAME="zynq_zed"
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_GIT=y
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_REPO_URL="git://github.com/Xilinx/u-boot-xlnx.git"
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION="xilinx-v14.5"
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_FORMAT_ELF=y