On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 06:48:35AM -0500, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 2:03 PM Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 02:35:56AM +0100, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Am 21.11.18 um 09:31 schrieb Trevor Woerner:
> > > > On kernel.org, a newer 8.1.0 version of the toolchains is available.
> > Also,
> > > > update the kernel.org version list to include some of the older
> > versions so
> > > > more architectures can be supported.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <tre...@toganlabs.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > tools/buildman/toolchain.py | 2 +-
> > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/tools/buildman/toolchain.py b/tools/buildman/toolchain.py
> > > > index 4b35f400e9..442a7f977a 100644
> > > > --- a/tools/buildman/toolchain.py
> > > > +++ b/tools/buildman/toolchain.py
> > > > @@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ class Toolchains:
> > > > """
> > > > arch = command.OutputOneLine('uname', '-m')
> > > > base = 'https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin'
> > > > - versions = ['7.3.0', '6.4.0', '4.9.4']
> > > > + versions = ['8.1.0', '7.3.0', '6.4.0', '5.5.0', '4.9.4',
> > '4.9.0', '4.8.5', '4.8.0', '4.7.3', '4.6.3', '4.6.2', '4.6.1', '4.5.1',
> > '4.2.4']
> > >
> > > with 4c58d273e0f2cc21821c1de32494abd5de411d9b we removed the older and
> > > unneeded versions. So it doesn't make sense to add them again.
> > >
> > > Also did you a test run on Travis CI to verify that all archs still
> > > compile where a 8.1.0 toolchain is available? Travis CI will
> > > automatically use the latest avaiable toolchain for each arch. Possible
> > > new warnings or errors need to be fixed before doing the switch to 8.1.0.
> >
> > Agreed. Are you using buildman outside of U-Boot where you have a
> > usecase for adding in old versions / other architectures?
>
>
> Yes. I was using it as a general-purpose toolchain-downloading tool.
>
>
> > I do want to
> > move up to 8.1.0 but I'm sure we have warnings to fix before we can do
> > that. I _think_ I even posted a link to what was failing a while ago
> > and fixed a few things, but there's some harder to solve problems left.
> >
>
> Okay, no problem.
>
> In any case I'm partway through doing a test with and without my patches.
> I'll post my results for the sake of completeness.
>
> I'm also interested in exploring whether it might be possible to have
> buildman download pre-built toolchains from bootlin. Maybe that would be of
> some interest?We had thought about that for a bit, for a while, but Arnd is keeping the kernel.org ones more up to date than Bootlin was, when we had need of easy access to a specific new version. Things may have changed since then since it was 1-2 years ago, at this point. But yes, a patch to add an option to download from elsewhere (perhaps by base URL?) would be useful I think. I can see cases of pointing buildman at an internal mirror instead for example. -- Tom
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