[Buildroot] [PATCH v5 0/4] Add prebuilt nds32 toolchain, ae3xx board and autobuild configs support

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Nylon,

On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:25:41 +0800
Nylon Chen <nylon7 at andestech.com> wrote:

> Nylon Chen (4):
>   arch: add support for Andes 32-bit(nds32)
>   configs/andes_nds32_ae3xx: new defconfig
>   toolchain-external-andes-nds32: new package
>   support/config-fragments/autobuild: test the Andes nds32 toolchain

Following the merge of the nds32 architecture, two types of build
failures started to appear:

 - The target binutils package failed to build, because binutils does
   not yet have support for nds32. I tried with the latest binutils
   release, 2.32, and it was the same. So for now, I have disabled
   binutils on nds32. However, in binutils source, I see that
   bfd/elf-nds32.c is present, so there at least the beginning of some
   support. Could you comment on the status of nds32 support in
   binutils upstream ?

   Build failure: http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/1b1/1b18acb11db4d6c4198deb7385aff3d4d524c37e/build-end.log
   Commit to disable binutils on nds32: https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=b45a703078e6f3be096f24ac63848490d32d0d29

 - The libffi library does not have support for nds32 as well, so I
   made sure that we don't try to build configurations that include
   libffi on nds32. Are you planning on adding nds32 support to libffi
   upstream ?

   Build failure: http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/128/12803a705586e82fdfb49013da2eb3b9879ccd45/build-end.log
   Commit to disable libffi on nds32: https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=2e1f98d9509d869352080331e168abe5f1452e1a

Best regards,

Thomas Petazzoni
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com