Re: lkp: make.cross: old aarch64-gcc has been removed

[Fengguang Wu]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:00:07PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Fengguang, Masami,
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:31:57AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 07:08:40PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > >BTW, I found that the old toolchain is archived in release.linaro.org.
> > >So I made a patch for that.
> >
> > So there are gcc 4.9, 5, 6 versions available for aarch64.  Since the
> > build robot nowadays uses debian's packaged gcc-6-aarch64-linux-gnu,
> > it should be better to use gcc-6 in make.coss to better reproduce
> > reported regressions:
> >
> > http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/latest/aarch64-linux-gnu/gcc-linaro-6.2.1-2016.11-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.xz
> >
> > There are some other files there and I'm not quite sure if that's the
> > right URL to use. CC aarch64 maintainers for possible inputs.
>
> If you're looking for a stable url to grab the latest Linaro binary

Yes it'd be best to have a stable URL. Thanks!

> toolchains, then it's probably best to ask somebody from the Linaro
> Toolchain Working Group. I've added Ryan Arnold to cc, since he should
> be able to help.
>
> Ryan: the background is that the Make.cross script [1] hardcodes a path
> to a Linaro binary toolchain that no longer exists, so it would be good
> to replace it with a stable link pointing to the latest build. Is the one
> suggested above correct?
>
> Will
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/plain/sbin/make.cross