From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:20:29 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] configs/xilfpga: Add xilfpga defconfig In-Reply-To: <5628ABC9.50300@imgtec.com> References: <1445439476-32911-1-git-send-email-Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com> <20151021171402.5d9aa7d0@free-electrons.com> <5628ABC9.50300@imgtec.com> Message-ID: <5628F0AD.3090906@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 22-10-15 11:26, Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel wrote: > 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. Well, to be able to upstream, you must have at least a local repo, so it's just a matter of pushing that to github or gitlab. > 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 If those patches are all that is needed, it would be possible to include them in buildroot. Or download them from patchwork. We're really not going to accept a defconfig that doesn't build a kernel. What about the bootloader? Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF