[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] qemu/x86: add defconfig for serial console usage

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Jul 31 21:56:43 UTC 2014


Dear Waldemar Brodkorb,

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:44:11 +0200, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> Developers sometimes work remotely and want to test stuff in Qemu
> without having X11 running. For this case an extra defconfig is
> useful and does not break existing defconfig.
> 
> A config which can be used for both cases might be used instead,
> but I see no option to add more gettys via the existing buildroot
> variables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx at openadk.org>
> ---
>  board/qemu/x86/readme.txt         |  6 ++++++
>  configs/qemu_x86_serial_defconfig | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 configs/qemu_x86_serial_defconfig

Since there are still comments about this approach, and a suggestion to
do it differently, I've marked this patch as "Changes Requested" in our
patch tracking system.

Thanks!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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