[Buildroot] [FYI] Bootlin external toolchains
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Mon Dec 9 15:59:22 UTC 2019
Hello,
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 22:15:47 +0100
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> To kick off the bikeshedding, here's my opinion on what the package should look
> like.
>
> * It should be a single package, toolchain-external-bootlin. Maybe two (-stable
> and -bleeding-edge) but I think there'll be enough shared infrastructure to
> warrant creating a single package.
Agreed. My initial start of work in this area looked exactly like this:
a single package. See
https://github.com/tpetazzoni/buildroot/commit/58413ab16c6b203dca48db182e74e59ae73c958a.
Note: this commit is far from being something that works. If I had
something that worked, I would have submitted it.
> * It should offer a choice in Config.in.options for libc and stable/bleeding-edge.
See commit above :-)
> * For now, it should be limited to *exactly* the same architecture suboptions as
> what the toolchain was built for. Later we can decide how to expand this to
> compatible options (e.g. the core-i7 toolchain will also work for core-avx2) -
> but I'm pretty sure that that is something that will require help from
> toolchain-builder itself.
Pretty much what I did, yes :-)
Thanks,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
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