[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] configs/xilfpga: Add xilfpga defconfig

[Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel <Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com>]

Hi,

On 21/10/15 16:14, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Zubair,
>
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:57:56 +0100, Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel wrote:
>> Under the IMG University Program 'MIPSfpga', RTL verilog code for a MIPS
>> m14kEC core is released under an academic license.
>>
>> The core is used to make a soft-SOC which can run the Linux kernel +
>> buildroot.
>
> Cool! :-)
>

Indeed :)

>>
>> This patch adds a defconfig for it and a readme file.
>>
>> The config generates a simple mips32r2 rootfs using uClibc.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel <Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
>>
>> ---
>> p.s.
>>
>> The kernel patches for MIPSfpga will hopefully be upstreamed by 4.4.
>>
>> Once that is done, I'll look into adding the stuff to enable buildroot
>> to compile the kernel as well.
>
> A defconfig which doesn't build a kernel nor a bootloader is pretty
> useless IMO.
>
> Isn't the code to build this kernel available on some Git repository,
> even if it's not upstream yet ? If so, then it would be better to have
> a defconfig that points to this Git repository (actually, many of our
> defconfigs point to non-upstream kernel source code).

The users of MIPSfpga are academics who receive the patches along with
other documentation + MIPS core tar-balled up in a package.

Hence, instead of making a staging repo on github, I went for directly
up-streaming things.

I do intend to make buildroot build the kernel when the time comes.

e.g.
https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/?submitter=6836

Regards,
ZubairLK

>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
>