Re: [Buildroot] [RFC v2 00/14] add hexagon architecture

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello Brian,

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:30:39 -0800
Brian Cain <brian.cain@oss.qualcomm.com> wrote:

> I'm sharing this series with the list for the sake of discussion about
> how the approach taken could improve.  It's likely not quite ready for
> upstreaming yet.

Thanks for this series. Could you share some more details about the
Hexagon architecture, what is its current usage and use cases, roadmap?
Indeed, adding support for a new architecture in Buildroot means that
our autobuilders will try building all packages for this architecture,
which will certainly raise a large number of issues, which you will
have to address as a maintainer of this CPU architecture. How committed
are you to this effort?

This is even more significant as your proposal is to support this
architecture with Clang as a compiler, which will certainly break a LOT
of packages, causing even more troubles.

So what you're proposing here is certainly very interesting, but it's a
really large endeavor, and we need to understand whether you'll still
be around in 6 or 12 months to support this and address issues.

I'm going to reply to the individual patches with some more comments,
but I think this top-level discussion is the most important.

Thanks!

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
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