[Buildroot] ARM qemu versatile defconfig

[Paulo Matos <pmatos@igalia.com>]

Thomas Petazzoni writes:

> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:31:16 +0100
> Paulo Matos <pmatos@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.

Oh! I just learned Versatile is actually an ARM trademark. I thought
versatile here was used as an adjective. :)

Thanks for the suggestion on vexpress - I will give this a go.

>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas