From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:34:20 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Xtensa BUILDROOT support In-Reply-To: <49ACD317.6060205@hq.tensilica.com> References: <49ACD317.6060205@hq.tensilica.com> Message-ID: <20090303093420.77f7c3dd@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:49:59 -0800, Maxim Grigoriev a ?crit : > Xtensa BUILDROOT uses a concept of source overlays, > which are necessary because Xtensa processors are > configurable and extensible. Xtensa tools, e.g. > gcc, gdb, and binutils, use source overlays, which > can not be substituted by the current BUILDROOT > patching mechanism. This update makes patch-kernel.sh > script capable of handling these overlays. Can you detail how this concept of source overlays work, technically ? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com