Basic u-boot setup for porting

I have been doing some work on u-boot porting and I felt that I should write a small step by step guide for my reference.

1. Pull the u-boot source from git repo.
2. Create a separate branch. In this way you are creating
      isolating your changes to a separate branch. Once testing
      is done and is stable you can merge to the main branch.
      eg: git branch <yourbranchname> 
3. Checkout to your branch.   eg: git checkout <yourbranchname> 
4. Now we are ready to port u-boot to the new board. 
5. Create a folder called <yourboardname> in board/vendor/
      eg: board/vendor/<yourboardname>
6. Populate this folder with Kconfig,Makefile,<yourboardname>.c, any lds (linker script files) at a minimum.
   Modify Kconfig and Makefile accordingly. Any supporting files can be put in the above folder. 
7. Create a configuration file in include/configs/<yourboardname>.h
8. Create a defconfig file in configs/<yourboardname>_defconfig
9. Edit arch/<cpu_architecture>/cpu/<cpu_architecture_variant>/<cpu_vendor>/Kconfig
       eg: arch/arm/cpu/armv7/mx6/Kconfig 
10. Create a section TARGET_<yourboardname>
                        <...>
                        <...>
                        <...>
11.  At the end of the file add the source path.
     eg: source "board/<vendor>/<yourboardname>/Kconfig"
12.  Run
        CROSS_COMPILE="<yourcompilertoolchain>" make distclean
        CROSS_COMPILE="<yourcompilertoolchain>" make <yourboardname>_defconfig
        CROSS_COMPILE="<yourcompilertoolchain>" make
13.  To flash the board with your new u-boot do:
        sudo dd if=u-boot.imx of=/dev/sdb bs=512 seek=2 conv=fsync

If you have a board similar to already existing boards use the configurations present
in the already existing board to jump start your changes.

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