Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Fix building of sparc/sparc32plus test cases

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> writes:

> On 16/07/2025 11:54, Alex Bennée wrote:
>
>> We didn't have any reliable way to build sparc test cases. I have
>> found someone who ships a compiler but the binaries still don't run
>> due to the need for CASA.
>> I'm posting mainly for those who actually care who might want to fix
>> up the remaining cases.
>> Alex.
>> Alex Bennée (6):
>>    tests/tcg: special case sparc test cases
>>    tests/tcg: special case sparc32plus test cases
>>    configure: update sparc and sparc32plus target compiler detection
>>    tests/docker: add sparc-leon-cross container image
>>    configure: enable the container fallbacks for sparc/sparc32plus
>>    docs/about: deprecate add sparc/sparc32plus-*-user
>>   docs/about/deprecated.rst                     |  8 ++++
>>   configure                                     | 11 ++++-
>>   .../dockerfiles/sparc-leon-cross.docker       | 40 +++++++++++++++++
>>   tests/tcg/Makefile.target                     |  9 ++--
>>   tests/tcg/sparc/Makefile.target               | 45 +++++++++++++++++++
>>   tests/tcg/sparc32plus                         |  1 +
>>   6 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 tests/docker/dockerfiles/sparc-leon-cross.docker
>>   create mode 100644 tests/tcg/sparc/Makefile.target
>>   create mode 120000 tests/tcg/sparc32plus
>
> I think the basic Debian toolchain for 32-bit SPARC is working because
> it is currently used to build OpenBIOS, so I don't think we're quite
> at deprecation point yet.

If you can figure out the right runes to compile then we can just tweak
configure and also use the debian-all-test-cross image as a fallback.

>
> Let me have a look and see if I can figure out what is going on here.

Ack.

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro