manual/developer guide: minor rework of 'adding board support' section

Minor rework of the section 'Creating your own board support', as follows:
- Rename section into 'Adding support for a particular board'
- Modify introduction
- Refer to Project-specific customizations chapter

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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[[customize-store-board-support]]
== Creating your own board support
[[adding-board-support]]
== Adding support for a particular board
Creating your own board support in Buildroot allows users of a
particular hardware platform to easily build a system that is known to
work.
Buildroot contains basic configurations for several publicly available
hardware boards, so that users of such a board can easily build a system
that is known to work. You are welcome to add support for other boards
to Buildroot too.
To do so, you need to create a normal Buildroot configuration that
builds a basic system for the hardware: toolchain, kernel, bootloader,
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create a directory +board/<manufacturer>+ and a subdirectory
+board/<manufacturer>/<boardname>+. You can then store your patches
and configurations in these directories, and reference them from the main
Buildroot configuration.
Buildroot configuration. Refer to xref:customize[] for more details.

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[[customize]]
== Project-specific customization
Typical actions you may need to perform for a given project are: