[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Add default configuration for Raspberry Pi 2 (ARMv7 & NEON)

Floris Bos bos at je-eigen-domein.nl
Thu Feb 12 19:56:13 UTC 2015


Hi,

On 02/12/2015 08:09 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> James, All,
>
> On 2015-02-11 17:52 +1100, James Hebden spake thusly:
>>  From f73918e7f673845086503011d6130d4805e26549 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: James Hebden <james at hebden.net.au>
>> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:51:50 +1100
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Added RPi2
>>
>> I've put together a simple patch to add default a default config for
>> the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. Unlike earlier models the RPi2 supports
>> ARMv7 instructions and NEON - so I've enabled those whilst compiling.
>> It also sports a quad core processor so I've enabled SMP - those are
>> the only substantial changes from the default configurations for the
>> first edition Raspberry Pi. I've build and tested against a Raspberry
>> Pi 2 model B booting from SD card and couldn't find any issues with the
>> resulting image.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: James Hebden <james at hebden.net.au>
> Thank you for this patch.
>
> However, here are a few comments:
>
>    - your mailer wrapped long lines, so we can not apply it; please use
>      "git-send-email" to send patches;
>
>    - you provide a full Linux config file; this is huge and should be
>      reduced to a defconfig. Use "make update-linux-defconfig" in your
>      build directory to get a linux defconfig file;
>      (B.B.: it's a pity they are not yet bundling a bcmrpi2_defconfig in
>      the Linux kernel tree...)

The Linux defconfig for the Pi 2 is called bcm2709_defconfig


Yours sincerely,

Floris Bos



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