- make sure to add board specific targets before the final generation of the filesystems/tarballs.

  Until now, we did created the fs and only after that built/installed grub et al

Makefile

@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ include .config.cmd
 # in the .config file.
 include toolchain/*/*.mk
 include package/*/*.mk
-include target/*/*.mk
 
 # target stuff is last so it can override anything else
 include target/Makefile.in

target/Makefile.in

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+# make sure to put everything that is board-specific before the tarroot targets
 include target/generic/Makefile.in
 include target/device/Makefile.in
 include target/x86/Makefile.in
 include target/arm/Makefile.in
 include target/powerpc/Makefile.in
+# and finally build the filesystems/tarballs
+include target/*/*.mk