Re: Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6

[Alex Schuilenburg <alexs@ecoscentric.com>]

Hi Ilija

eCosCentric are happy to make its eCos test farm available to you for
automated testing of the new toolchains.

Having gone through our list of ARM and Cortex hardware in our test farm
and the hardware supported in the public eCos repository (i.e. the
physical hardware we have and what is supported in the public eCos
repository), we propose running tests for the Embedded Artists
LPC2468-32 (to test ARM7 and thumb mode, as well as the network stacks
with the newer toolchain since this board has ethernet support) and the
ST STM3210E-EVAL evaluation board (to test Cortex-M3).

The tests will take around 2 weeks to run after which I will post the
results for you to examine.  The results will be accessible through a
web interface in three forms:

 1. eCos build results
    eCos and its tests will be built in a number of different eCos
    configurations utilising a number of different compiler options.
    Each configuration is known as a perm (short for permutation).  A
    build is a tuple consisting of target+source+toolchain+perm.  The
    results of each build consist of the shell script used to configure
    and build eCos and the tests (so you can rebuild yourself), the eCos
    ecm export (so you can import the configuration without having to
    run the shell script), as well as the full compilation and link
    output of the build.
 2. eCos test results
    Each test built against a tuple is executed on real hardware with
    the test result logged. If a test fails, the full output is
    preserved and made available along with the test binary, although
    the full output of special tests such as tm_basic are also always
    made available.
 3. eCos test result summary
    The number of passes and number of each type of failure for each
    build is presented in table form to provide an overview of the test
    results for the build.

All we need from you is a Linux hosted arm-eabi toolchain in tarball
form and the eCos sources, also in tarball form, although we can use
http://hg-pub.ecoscentric.com/ecos as the source base if you prefer.

If you would like to make use of the test farm and agree with the
selection of targets (or can propose alternatives), please let me know
and provide me with the url where the toolchain can be downloaded from
(and optionally the sources).  I'll post the results as soon as the
tests are completed.

Cheers

--  Alex Schuilenburg

Managing Director/CEO                                eCosCentric Limited
www.ecoscentric.com             Reg in England and Wales, Reg No 4422071