On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 07:08:18PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 08:07:39PM +0800, Guo Ren wrote: > > This is the 3th version patchset to add the Linux kernel port for > > C-SKY(csky). > > Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on the previous version. > > > > This patchset adds architecture support to Linux for C-SKY's 32-bit embedded > > CPU cores and the patches are based on linux-4.18.4 > > > > There are two ABI versions with several CPU cores in this patchset: > > ABIv1: ck610 (16-bit instruction, 32-bit data path, VIPT Cache ...) > > ABIv2: ck807 ck810 ck860 (16/32-bit variable length instruction, PIPT > > Cache, > > SMP ...) > > > > My key question is about upstream toolchain support. > The buildroot clone tells me > > $ git describe csky/master > 2017.11-2111-ge9cc5a5 > > and > > $ git log --oneline origin/master..csky/master | wc > 1180 7436 57104 > > with > $ git remote -v > csky https://gitlab.com/c-sky/buildroot.git > origin git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot > > So it looks like there are more thasn a thousand patches on top of > buildroot. Adding an architecture to buildroot should only take a > single patch, or maybe a few, but not more than a thousand. > This strongly suggests that a lot of changes are not upstream > but only available in the buildroot clone. csky https://gitlab.com/c-sky/buildroot.git is our CI environment based on buildroot and it's so miscellaneous. We won't upstream it directly and we'll prepare another patch set for buildroot.org update after kernel, glibc upstreamed. > When are we going to see all those changes in upstream gcc, binutils, > and qemu ? I don't really want to dig through more than a thousand > patches in a buildroot clone to find out details about the status > of upstream toolchain support. Ok, you want to use upstream gcc, binutils to build the kernel. I'll give the tips in next version patch.
Best Regards Guo Ren
