[OpenPower-Firmware] Building on x86 host

[Samuel Mendoza-Jonas]

On Thu, 2016-11-03 at 14:48 -0700, Bill Alexander wrote:
> It's unclear to me from looking through the documentation and some of the files in
> 
>     https://github.com/open-power/op-build
> 
> whether op-build supports cross-compilation from an x86 host.
> 
> I'd like to be able to build the firmware from my laptop.  Maybe there's a Vagrant environment (or similar) with the PPC cross-compiler and binutils already installed?

It does! op-build (or rather, buildroot) builds the cross compiler itself, so
there should be no issue building it on your laptop. It might take a while
though :)