From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:35:43 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [Q] Buildroot vs uCLinux In-Reply-To: References: <20130626000110.0bbb80cc@skate> Message-ID: <20130626153543.4bf75096@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Ezequiel Garcia, On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:19:07 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > > Which CPU architecture is this platform > > using? > > Nios2 Nice! However, beware that Buildroot has no support for NIOS2. That said, if you have prebuilt known-working toolchains for NIOS2, adding support for this architecture in Buildroot is not very complicated. Patches welcome! > > There are apparently some not too old releases of uClinux-dist (october > > 2012), but I'm not sure where the development is happening since the > > CVS repository reference on the project web site seems to contain only > > very old stuff. > > Well, this is my very same concern: the lack of a healthy community > on the uCLinux side. I can it's a good choice for MMU-less platforms > given packages have been heavily patched. But this is not the case, > and hence my perplexity. Correct, we don't have as many noMMU fixes in Buildroot as uClibc-dist has, but we're working on this progressively. > Since this platforms come in two flavors (MMU and MMU-less) I was almost sure > the reason is mostly historical. Most likely yes. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com