[OpenPower-Firmware] Building on x86 host

[Samuel Mendoza-Jonas]

On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 10:00 +1100, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas wrote:
> 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 :)

Perhaps I should have let all my new mail load before replying to a topic with
two answers already - but at least you definitely have an answer!

Now where's my coffee..