[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] arch: riscv: Add a RISC-V Platform option

Alistair Francis alistair23 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 18 20:30:03 UTC 2019


On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 12:36 AM Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Alistair,
>
> Thanks for your contribution.
>
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:06:38 +0000
> Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis at wdc.com> wrote:
>
> > Add a RISC-V Platform option. At the moment only QEMU platforms are
> > supported, but in the future this can be extended to include real
> > hardware platforms (such as the Unleashed board).
> >
> > My goal is that this platform will set default config options (such as
> > the default defconfig for the kernel) based on the platform value.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis at wdc.com>
>
> We never describe each and every board using Buildroot options. If we
> were to do that, we would have gazillion of options for the thousands
> of boards that exist.

Yep, that makes sense.

>
> So, we are not going to accept this patch. What we do however is add a
> number of defconfigs for well known platforms, just like:
>
>   configs/qemu_riscv32_virt_defconfig
>   configs/qemu_riscv64_virt_defconfig

Update in v2.

Alistair

>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com



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