On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 at 10:40, Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> 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 ? thanks -- PMM
