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

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Message-ID: <20170112141104.e5w6m4ismvjydpyc@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:11:04 +0800
From:   Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        ryan.arnold@...aro.org
Subject: Re: lkp: make.cross: old aarch64-gcc has been removed

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