Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 4/4] package/binutils: drop version 2.32

From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>,
	Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>,
	Buildroot List <buildroot@buildroot.org>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 4/4] package/binutils: drop version 2.32
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 01:02:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220428230210.GL3624965@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220429000039.23e1a1fe@windsurf>

Thomas, All,

On 2022-04-29 00:00 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:52:20 +0200
> "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > I was considering on not applying that one, so we could have a fallback
> > in case there were runtime issues reported with newer binutils (I could
> > only build-test your series, I lack a noMMU target).
> > 
> > But if that happens to be the case, we can revert this patch quite
> > easily.
> > 
> > so, applied to master, thanks.
> 
> Really if people still need to use binutils 2.32 and none of the newer
> binutils version work for FLAT, I would call FLAT an unmaintained
> use-case, which should lead us to drop support for it rather than
> keeping an old binutils version around.

True.

> I don't know if there's an easy way to test an ARM noMMU build in Qemu.
> https://xpack.github.io/qemu-arm/ which is a fork of Qemu, seems to
> emulate STM32F429I-Discovery, which we have support for in Buildroot.
> Not clear if the source is available, but since Qemu is GPLv2, I guess
> the source code for this fork should be available somewhere.

https://github.com/xpack-dev-tools/qemu-arm-xpack

From the README:

    Easy install

    The easiest way to install QEMU Arm is using the binary xPack,
    available as @xpack-dev-tools/qemu-arm from the npmjs.com registry.

WTF?

The qemu fork seems to be there:
    https://github.com/xpack-dev-tools/qemu

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
> -- 
> Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
> https://bootlin.com

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