[Buildroot] [PATCH 2 of 2] Introduction of Amlogic platform to buildroot

[Stanislav Vasic <svlasic@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:54:59 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Dear Stanislav Vasic,
> 
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 15:35:00 +0000 (UTC), Stanislav Vasic wrote:
>> From 674615f2986c928cadd122377bbb4254192f5923 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Stanislav Vasic <svlasic@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 16:07:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Introduce Amlogic
>> MX platform to buildroot
>> 
>> Target platform options submenu added, currently used only for setting
>> up proper configuration of buildroot for Amlogic MX platform.
> 
> I'm afraid, but we don't want to have per-SoC options in Buildroot. We
> have discussed this in the past, and there are way too many ARM SoC to
> make this reasonable. Why is this patch needed at all?

Hi,

That is what I was told yesterday (about adding it). Amlogic buildroot is 
too complicated and it's used mainly for running XBMC on top of buildroot. 
I agree there are too many things (such as non-standard opengl drivers, 
Amlogic property a/v libraries...).

Patch is needed so we know we're building for Amlogic SoC, and for other 
packages to know which eg. opengl or a/v libs to include in build.

> For all other ARM platforms, the user simply has to choose the
> appropriate ARM core (Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9, Cortex-A15, etc.), and
> that's it. We also provide default configurations (see the configs/
> directory) for various well-known hardware platforms, and those
> configurations correctly define which ARM core should be used.

See above, at this point it's not so simple for Amlogic.

> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas

Regards,
Stan