From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 10:26:33 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] configs/xilfpga: Add xilfpga defconfig In-Reply-To: <20151021171402.5d9aa7d0@free-electrons.com> References: <1445439476-32911-1-git-send-email-Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com> <20151021171402.5d9aa7d0@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <5628ABC9.50300@imgtec.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi, On 21/10/15 16:14, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Zubair, > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:57:56 +0100, Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel wrote: >> Under the IMG University Program 'MIPSfpga', RTL verilog code for a MIPS >> m14kEC core is released under an academic license. >> >> The core is used to make a soft-SOC which can run the Linux kernel + >> buildroot. > > Cool! :-) > Indeed :) >> >> This patch adds a defconfig for it and a readme file. >> >> The config generates a simple mips32r2 rootfs using uClibc. >> >> Signed-off-by: Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel >> Reviewed-by: Vicente Olivert Riera >> >> --- >> p.s. >> >> The kernel patches for MIPSfpga will hopefully be upstreamed by 4.4. >> >> Once that is done, I'll look into adding the stuff to enable buildroot >> to compile the kernel as well. > > A defconfig which doesn't build a kernel nor a bootloader is pretty > useless IMO. > > Isn't the code to build this kernel available on some Git repository, > even if it's not upstream yet ? If so, then it would be better to have > a defconfig that points to this Git repository (actually, many of our > defconfigs point to non-upstream kernel source code). The users of MIPSfpga are academics who receive the patches along with other documentation + MIPS core tar-balled up in a package. Hence, instead of making a staging repo on github, I went for directly up-streaming things. I do intend to make buildroot build the kernel when the time comes. e.g. https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/?submitter=6836 Regards, ZubairLK > > Thanks! > > Thomas >