[U-Boot] [PATCH] buildman: README: add links for toolchains not available on kernel.org

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Thu Nov 12 03:19:18 CET 2015


On Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 02:16:05 AM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> Hi Marek,

Hi!

> On 2015年11月11日 23:54, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 02:37:08 PM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> >> Add links for toolchains not available on kernel.org.
> >> 
> >> The sh4 toolchains from kernel.org dose not work for some boards,
> >> so use the sh from Sourcery.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas at wytron.com.tw>
> > 
> > Wouldn't it instead make more sense to get kernel.org to mirror those
> > toolchains ? The links might not last forever, but I think kernel.org
> > is not gonna go belly-up any soon.
> 
> Agree. But I think it will be helpful to offer these links when it is
> missing or not working on kernel.org.

Sure, but if it's missing on k.org, it should just be added there too.

> I realized now that buildman is an effective and must-have tool. Every
> developer should run buildman before submitting patches, though it does
> take hours to run. The problem is that some toolchains are not easily
> found until looking into tools/moveconfig.py. So we should make it
> available.

Yeah.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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