Hi Andrew, On 03/09/2026 19:11, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> Tested on an aarch64 target, built on x86_64. > > Probably a question for Jakub or Matthieu. > > As part of the CI system which is feeding into patchworks, I don't > think we build the selftests? Do we have the CPU resources to build > them?
We do: the "build_tools" script [1] checks that. And they are also built before launching the selftests. > We currently do x86 64 and 32 bit builds. Do we have the CPU resources > to do an arm64 cross build? I think we do, but I don't know if we need to (see below) > I assume a cross build the self tests needs something like buildroot > to be sensible? Or Debians multi-arch stuff where you can install .deb > packages for libraries for other architectures? So maybe that is going > too far? >From what I understood, the goal is to execute the selftests on embedded systems as well, which will require building new image including the kernel and the drivers/net selftests. Do we need to build the whole kernel for arm64? :) Cheers, Matt
