Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] Add Aarch64 SVE Linux headers

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>]

On Tuesday, June 12 2018, Simon Marchi wrote:

> On 2018-06-12 10:37, Alan Hayward wrote:
>> Sorry, I did miss this one (I think I sent my reply to the previous
>> one more or less the same time you sent this).
>>
>> If I commit this, (I think) this is going to cause buildbot to break
>> for the aarch64 builds.
>> (Out of interest - I’ve heard people say they tested on buildbot. Are
>> there some instructions for doing that? I can try it out.)
>
> Hmm you're right.  Though maybe we can have additional
> commands/configure options specific to the aarch64 builders?  They
> could download a kernel tarball, install the headers somewhere (that
> doesn't take long, no need to build the kernel) and point to them.
> Sergio, would that be possible/a good idea?

I'm not sure.  For starters, the Aarch64 builders have kinda been
forgotten since Yao stopped contributing regularly to GDB (he is the
maintainer of the machines behind the builders).  So the very first
thing we'd need to do is to put the builders in a good shape again
(they're currently with 273 pending builds in the queue!).  This is
something that's been on my TODO list for a while now, and I was going
to ask Alan (or anyone from ARM) if they're not interested in taking
over the maintenance of these machines.

Then, I think the best approach for the SVE builds would be to manually
download a Linux kernel, put the sources somewhere, and then I could
configure a specific builder to build GDB with the SVE headers.

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