add support for xtensa back to buildroot
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Cover letter [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] add support for xtensa back to buildroot
Dear Chris Zankel,
Quoted 7 lines · Chris Zankel
It would be great if you could add support for Xtensa back to buildroot. I understand that it was removed because it required a lot of additional files and special handling, which became obsolete and hard to maintain over time.
These two patches are much more aligned with other architectures with only very minimal overhead. I also just recently updated uClibc and can build buildroot out of the box, so we can now better support and maintain it.
I just skimmed through the patches, but it indeed looks a lot more reasonable than the support we originally had for Xtensa, thanks for this work!. One thing that should be added is to make sure that the Crosstool-NG backend cannot be selected for Xtensa, as it doesn't support this architecture.
Also, the issue we had with the original Xtensa implementation is that the original submitters sent some patches that we merged, and subsequently never maintained them. Do you have plans to use this Xtensa architecture on a regular basis, and help us fixing build issues related to this architecture? Of course, we don't require you any sort of strict commitment or anything like that, I'd just like to know how much you'll be using this architecture.
Thanks again for having worked on this,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com