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]] [[adding-board-support]]
== Creating your own board support == Adding support for a particular board
Creating your own board support in Buildroot allows users of a Buildroot contains basic configurations for several publicly available
particular hardware platform to easily build a system that is known to hardware boards, so that users of such a board can easily build a system
work. 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 To do so, you need to create a normal Buildroot configuration that
builds a basic system for the hardware: toolchain, kernel, bootloader, builds a basic system for the hardware: toolchain, kernel, bootloader,
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create a directory +board/<manufacturer>+ and a subdirectory create a directory +board/<manufacturer>+ and a subdirectory
+board/<manufacturer>/<boardname>+. You can then store your patches +board/<manufacturer>/<boardname>+. You can then store your patches
and configurations in these directories, and reference them from the main 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 == Project-specific customization
Typical actions you may need to perform for a given project are: Typical actions you may need to perform for a given project are: