From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Bobroff Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 15:52:46 +1100 Subject: [Buildroot] Autobuilder for powerpc64le? In-Reply-To: <20161027095607.4fdc7bc5@free-electrons.com> References: <20161026051532.GA13988@tungsten.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20161026091227.7eb2f99f@free-electrons.com> <20161027035203.GA2558@tungsten.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20161027095607.4fdc7bc5@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20161101045246.GA8382@tungsten.ozlabs.ibm.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:56:07AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:52:03 +1100, Sam Bobroff wrote: > > > > I'd say that both are useful, though (2) looks more interesting to me. > > > > At the moment, it's (2), although I might eventually try to get (1) going as > > well. > > OK. > > > > (2) Requires adding some base toolchain configurations in > > > https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot-test/tree/web/toolchains/configs/. > > > One .config file per toolchain configuration, and each of them > > > should be referenced in toolchain-configs.csv. > > > > OK! It's (2), so what do I need do next? Do I need to create the configs or > > provide you with some info? (If it's me, are there instructions somewhere?) > > You clone the Git repository at > https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot-test/, add new .config files in > web/toolchains/configs/, and reference them in > web/toolchains/configs/toolchain-configs.csv, and then send patches on > the Buildroot mailing list, as usual. Great, I'll send a patch shortly. > > Oh, also, how are the pre-built toolchains managed? I notice that some of the > > configs use them and some don't. Can we create ones for the new targets? > > Yes, we can. In this case, just provide me the base Buildroot > configuration for those targets, and I'll build the toolchains > accordingly. > > Do you want just powerpc64/glibc and powerpc64el/glibc, or are there > other interesting C libraries supporting powerpc64 that we should test ? Just those at the moment. > > > Also, if you're interested in powerpc64 and powerpc64le and we indeed > > > add toolchain configurations in the autobuilders, it would be nice if > > > you could add: > > > > > > N: Sam Bobroff > > > F: arch/Config.in.powerpc > > > > > > to the DEVELOPERS file. This way, you will receive a daily e-mail with > > > the failures that occurred on powerpc, powerpc64 and powerpc64le (i.e > > > all BR2_ARCH values described in arch/Config.in.powerpc). > > > > I can only help with powerpc64 and powerpc64le, if that's OK then I'm happy to > > add myself. I can probably find someone else around here to put their hand up > > too. Should I just send a buildroot patch with the change? > > We currently don't have a way of expressing interest only for powerpc64 > but not powerpc. Is it fine if you get both results? It is, I'll send a patch for that as soon as the autobuilders are in :-) Cheers, Sam.