[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] add support for xtensa back to buildroot

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Nov 10 10:57:29 UTC 2012


Chris,

On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 09:14:35 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> I've also seen that Qemu has an Xtensa support. It would be nice if you
> could create a qemu_xtensa_<somemachine>_defconfig with the necessary
> kernel configuration and al (see other qemu_<foo>_defconfig that we
> have in configs/) so that other people could build a Xtensa userspace
> and run it inside qemu. At the moment, the qemu-system-xtensa supports
> the following machines:
> 
> $ qemu-system-xtensa -M ?
> Supported machines are:
> none                 empty machine
> lx60                 lx60 EVB (dc232b)
> lx200                lx200 EVB (dc232b)
> sim                  sim machine (dc232b) (default)

Do you have any plans for proposing the support of a Qemu board using
the Xtensa architecture? Qemu already supports 2-3 platforms, so it
would be nice if Buildroot had a defconfig to generate a working system
for one of them.

Thanks,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
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