[U-Boot] NDS32 toolchain?

Tue Apr 24 03:10:02 UTC 2018

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Rini [mailto:trini at konsulko.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 4:17 AM
> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Rick Jian-Zhi Chen(陳建志)
> Subject: NDS32 toolchain?
>
> Hey,
>
> So I'm looking over my setups again at what we do and do not have build testing
> and run-time testing, and I see that for nds32 I just cannot find a good toolchain.
> If I try for example
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/7.3.0/x86_
> 64-gcc-7.3.0-nolibc-nds32-elf.tar.xz
> it first fails on the -G0 flag that we have set in and then it complains about a lack
> of position independent code support.  Is the kernel.org toolchain perhaps
> configured incorrectly?
>

Hi Tom

You may try the following paths:

1.
github version
https://github.com/andestech/build_script.git
https://github.com/greentime/prebuilt-nds32-toolchain/releases

2.
Arnd Bergmann built
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/17/395
www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/6.4.0/x86_64-gcc-6.4.0-nolibc-nds32le-linux.tar.xz

> Related, is there a QEMU target for nds32 that we could leverage so that once
> the toolchain issue is resolved we can update .travis.yml to run tests on it?
> Thanks!
>

I am applying the QEMU offering permit.
If it is ok. I will prepare it for you.

Thanks

Rick :)

> --
> Tom
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