RE: how can we test the hexagon port in mainline

[Brian Cain]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
...
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> the oldest supported gcc version in mainline is gcc 4.9.  But the only
> hexagon crosscompiler I can find is the one Arnds website points to here:
> 
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/
> 
> which is a non-upstream gcc 4.6.1 port.  How are we supposed to even
> build test hexagon code?

We have provided a clang-12-based toolchain here:

https://codelinaro.jfrog.io/artifactory/codelinaro-qemu/2021-05-12/clang+llv
m-12.0.0-cross-hexagon-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz

Could we update https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ to
point here?

-Brian