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

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:31:57 +0800
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Masami,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 07:08:40PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> >Ping?
> 
> Oops, sorry for overlooking your previous email!
> 
> >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:

OK, that'll be good too. Would it use debian cross-arch gcc for other
architectures too? I would like to make similar environment for build
test internally.

Thank you,

> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> Fengguang
> 
> >On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 07:43:45 +0900
> >Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Fengguang,
> >>
> >> Recently I tried to build a cross-build environment ( https://github.com/mhiramat/linux-cross ) by using your make.cross ( https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/plain/sbin/make.cross ).
> >> And I've found that it failed to setup cross gcc for aarch64, because it is no more provided by linaro.
> >>
> >> Could you update the url to the newer one from linaro or use crosstool
> >> as like as other archs?
> >>
> >> The latest stable version (gcc-5) can be found here.
> >> http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/latest-5/
> >>
> >> There are also gcc-6 series for development, and you can find 4.9 binaries
> >> too. But I would like to recommend you to use stable one for testing.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> >-- 
> >Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 


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