[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] add support for xtensa back to buildroot

[Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>]

On 11/10/2012 02:57 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> I've also seen that Qemu has an Xtensa support. It would be nice if you
>> could create a qemu_xtensa_<somemachine>_defconfig with the necessary
>> kernel configuration and al (see other qemu_<foo>_defconfig that we
>> have in configs/) so that other people could build a Xtensa userspace
>> and run it inside qemu. At the moment, the qemu-system-xtensa supports
>> the following machines:
>>
>> $ qemu-system-xtensa -M ?
>> Supported machines are:
>> none                 empty machine
>> lx60                 lx60 EVB (dc232b)
>> lx200                lx200 EVB (dc232b)
>> sim                  sim machine (dc232b) (default)
> Do you have any plans for proposing the support of a Qemu board using
> the Xtensa architecture? Qemu already supports 2-3 platforms, so it
> would be nice if Buildroot had a defconfig to generate a working system
> for one of them.
Yes, I'm planing to add support for QEMU, but it will probably take a
bit to understand it better before I have a config and maybe some patches.

Thanks,
-Chris