[Buildroot] [PATCH v9 0/8] Add support for the Rust programming
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Mon Jan 22 21:57:13 UTC 2018
On 19-01-18 09:03, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 23:41:58 +0100, Eric Le Bihan wrote:
>
>>> We have tests like support/testing/tests/fs/test_iso9660.py that don't
>>> use BASIC_TOOLCHAIN_CONFIG.
>>
>> Looking at the existing tests, I thought it was a requirement to use
>> toolchains hosted at http://autobuild.buildroot.org/.
>
> Not at all. We do have some tests that don't use those toolchains. Look
> at support/testing/tests/boot/test_atf.py, the tests use Linaro
> toolchains.
>
>>> I'm not sure what "artefacts" you are looking for here.
>>
>> I was referring to ARTIFACTS_URL, where ARM versatile/vexpress
>> kernels are available. As I thought I should have used
>> br-aarch64-glibc-2017.05-1078-g95b1dae.tar.bz2 to get a glibc-based
>> toolchain, adding Aarch64 support to the emulator seemed necessary.
>>
>> I'll go with the Linaro toolchain, using ARM vexpress as target.
>
> If you want to do runtime test on an AArch64 platform without building
> the kernel as part of your test configuration, then yes, we would have
> to add an artifact on http://autobuild.buildroot.net/artefacts/. I can
> definitely do that if needed.
>
> I'm not super happy with this artefacts solution, but I wanted to avoid
> putting all those binary files under version control inside the
> Buildroot repository. If people have better proposals, I'm definitely
> interested.
We could have the artefacts produced by gitlab-CI, and use the gitlab pipeline
feature to make sure the most recently built one is used. Well, that's the
theory, I haven't looked at the details :-)
Regards,
Arnout
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