Re: Call for GSoC internship project ideas

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 10:54:42AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 at 10:40, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Once we have written some scripts that can build gcc, binutils, linux,
> > busybox we've opened the door to be able to support every machine type
> > on every target, provided there has been a gcc/binutils/linux port at
> > some time (which covers practically everything). Adding new machines
> > becomes cheap then - just a matter of identifying the Linux Kconfig
> > settings, and everything else stays the same. Adding new targets means
> > adding a new binutils build target, which should again we relatively
> > cheap, and also infrequent. This has potential to be massively more
> > sustainable than a reliance on distros, and should put us on a pathway
> > that would let us cover almost everything we ship.
> 
> Isn't that essentially reimplementing half of buildroot, or the
> system image builder that Rob Landley uses to produce toybox
> test images ?

If we can use existing tools to achieve this, that's fine.

With regards,
Daniel
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