[Buildroot] ARM qemu versatile defconfig

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:31:16 +0100
Paulo Matos <pmatos at igalia.com> wrote:

> I am trying to get a emulation environment based on arm 32bits to
> emulate the native environment we have setup with
> raspberrypi3_defconfig.
> 
> The only existing defconfig I can see that could help me with this is
> qemu_arm_versatile_defconfig however, I do not understand what this
> 'versatile' refers to or find any online documentation about it.
> 
> Could someone explain what this 'versatile' defconfig corresponds to in
> terms of emulated hardware? Or is it versatile because you should use
> 'make menuconfig' later to specifically configure it for your needs?

Versatile is one of the ARM machines emulated by Qemu. If you want to
be closer to RPi3, I would suggest to use our
qemu_arm_vexpress_defconfig instead, and follow the instructions of
board/qemu/arm-vexpress/readme.txt to use it.

Best regards,

Thomas
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