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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Fwd: Rough notes from testing unconference
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On 08/25/2014 02:23 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2014 19:14, "Guenter Roeck" <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 08/24/2014 10:12 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
>>> ktest depends on a rootfs from elsewhere. I'm only mildly familiar
>>> with aiaiai, but it appears to be the same situation. The gap I see is
>>> the ability to cross compile the kselftest test cases and the ability
>>> to create a rootfs including the test cases for any architecture. A
>>> tool to solve that problem should be usable by both ktest and aiaiai.
>>>
>> Exactly.
>>
>> Wonder if it would be possible to publish prebuilt toolchains on kernel.org
>> which are suitable to create the root file system.
>
> I want to experiment with crosstool-ng, and yes I think the binaries
> should go on kernel.org. The current toolchains on kernel.org are
> built by Tony Breeds using Segher Boessenkool's buildall scripts (gcc
> only, no glibc). There are patches to buildall which will build a
> libc, but I haven't had much success with them.
>

Building toolchains with the latest version of buildroot is working
pretty well for me.

Guenter