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

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 03:23:11 CET 2015


On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> 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.

Adding Tony who is maintaining the kernel.org toolchains
(https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/)

>
>> 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

Regards,
Bin


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