From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from smtp3.osuosl.org (smtp3.osuosl.org [140.211.166.136]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7AF3C001B0 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2023 20:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp3.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE5560ADF; Sun, 6 Aug 2023 20:51:58 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp3.osuosl.org 9BE5560ADF X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at osuosl.org Received: from smtp3.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp3.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id udmH4OGNyWk7; Sun, 6 Aug 2023 20:51:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ash.osuosl.org (ash.osuosl.org [140.211.166.34]) by smtp3.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF9260DFE; Sun, 6 Aug 2023 20:51:56 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp3.osuosl.org BFF9260DFE Received: from smtp3.osuosl.org (smtp3.osuosl.org [140.211.166.136]) by ash.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 361221BF421 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2023 20:51:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp3.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE44605AC for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2023 20:51:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp3.osuosl.org 7FE44605AC X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at osuosl.org Received: from smtp3.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp3.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pXStiql84bC3 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2023 20:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay7-d.mail.gandi.net (relay7-d.mail.gandi.net [IPv6:2001:4b98:dc4:8::227]) by smtp3.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4610B60B9C for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2023 20:51:31 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp3.osuosl.org 4610B60B9C Received: by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3114E20002; Sun, 6 Aug 2023 20:51:28 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 22:51:27 +0200 To: Alexey Brodkin via buildroot Message-ID: <20230806225127.02236235@windsurf> In-Reply-To: References: <20230802220321.6af766af@windsurf> <20230803001230.284ba84d@windsurf> Organization: Bootlin X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-GND-Sasl: thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com X-Mailman-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bootlin.com; s=gm1; t=1691355088; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=FNbMR4r9wNKNl6jtEwhyHCpv8zFe846x2WGRV0bwvh8=; b=Naf1clxZ2ofoSGzI1LwMdvRvRPGipSGPCzvKTzBaRJ4gaEa6ZXlNeO3nCFfaE03ENQsf7t vR9cKoqPECnI9+j1VjU/2JBB8drvC5YjG8VGs4wYAl0W/gDy9EqH6B13pImmp9ASbaKgaU eHILOSKkjrnA0MjZfYgeOQwR6b+/YtqslCKuHvHR6BJgqiIFnxQMXmoB2LeOY3FgNhcsUV o/F3vyMmsXSn1ie+13Xo1oS/MfXvFBsx946BahyHnBkUYsp0/pEb8/T0uIJRwyYNBQqd/s WAid8ro2MiNFEGfq81/P7R8P2ArfdAsH9MoU8pPXrmrKFSyy+xrEuoQI1Knm8w== X-Mailman-Original-Authentication-Results: smtp3.osuosl.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key, unprotected) header.d=bootlin.com header.i=@bootlin.com header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=gm1 header.b=Naf1clxZ Subject: Re: [Buildroot] ARC support in Buildroot X-BeenThere: buildroot@buildroot.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion and development of buildroot List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot Reply-To: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Alexey Brodkin , ARC Buildroot mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: buildroot-bounces@buildroot.org Sender: "buildroot" Hello Alexey, On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 07:59:56 +0000 Alexey Brodkin via buildroot wrote: > > Can we drop those special versions and assume what's in upstream > > GCC/binutils/GDB is good enough? > > Well, we'll just update it to say 2023.03 [1] or maybe even 2023.09 later > in the fall :) Looking forward to your patch doing this. > And the reason is that ARCv3 support. As I mentioned ARCompact/ARCv2 is > well supported in upstream GCC/Binutils/GDB etc and all the fixes go right > to the upstream repos as we have our own maintainers who take care of that. > > So, in theory it should be OK to remove "arc-xxxx.yy" toolchains from Buildroot. > But since we were a bit late with ARCv3 changes for GCC 13, those will only > land in GCC 14 which is going to happen sometime in 2024, I guess. > > Thus, we'll need to have "arc-xxxx.yy" anyway with sources from our GitHub > forks, primarily to support ARCv3 stuff. Thus, I didn't want to introduce that > turbulence with removal of ARC toolchain and then adding it back next week. Sounds good to me, but it should be maintained then :-) > > (1) Drop ARC-specific versions of GCC/binutils/GDB if you confirm it's OK > > As I said, we'll update ARC toolchain instead: > - Primarily to add ARCv3 support and while ARC toolchian will be there anyway > - It makes sense to keep it for ARCompact/ARCv2 as there're some fixes and > improvements which are not yet upstream (because release schedules don't match) OK. > > (2) Add readme.txt about the different defconfigs so we understand > > which platform they target, and where it can be found, if freely > > available. > > We'll do that. Good. > > (3) Perhaps make it possible to build the ARC-specific qemu, so that we > > can out of the box have a qemu that we can use to boot test one ARC > > platform. Then we can enable that in our Gitlab CI > > Well, QEMU for ARC is easily doable. I guess it's more of a question on how to > integrate it with Buildroot's GitLab flow, any references to docs on the matter > (sorry if asking something simple, but while I have your attention, possibly you > may point me at something immediately)? We probably need to simply tweak the existing Qemu package. Not a priority, but would be nice. Something more important: fix the broken snps_arc700_axs101_defconfig. You're normally receiving e-mails about this. If not, let me know, because it means there is an issue in the notification machinery. See: https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/jobs/4795673779 https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15446 Thanks a lot! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training https://bootlin.com _______________________________________________ buildroot mailing list buildroot@buildroot.org https://lists.buildroot.org/mailman/listinfo/buildroot