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

[Simon Glass]

On 11 November 2015 at 19:23, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>