[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] configs: remove qemu_csky defconfigs

[Romain Naour]

Hello Thomas, All,

Le 03/10/2021 à 16:22, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
> Hello Romain,
> 
> On Sun,  3 Oct 2021 14:40:23 +0200
> Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> We are going to remove the gcc fork for csky since it doesn't build
>> with the latest compilers (gcc 8, 10, 11 tested) [1].
>>
>> Removing theses defconfigs and the csky gcc fork has become unavoidable
>> since the Buildroot Docker image used by the gitlab CI will switch soon
>> to Debian bullseye soon [2].
>>
>> The cksy gcc fork based on gcc 6 has not been updated since it has been
>> added to Buildroot [3]. Since then, csky has been added to binutils and
>> gcc but using the latest upstream version (binutils 2.37 and gcc 11) is
>> not yet possible due to build issue with glibc 2.34 [4].
>>
>> Moreover, qemu_csky defconfigs was to be used with the csky qemu fork
>> (based on Qemu 3.x) added by commit [5] and removed by commit [6].
>> Since then it's not possible to do a runtime test with theses
>> defconfigs.
>>
>> Theses defconfigs can be added back later if the csky toolchain support
>> is fixed and csky supported by upstream Qemu.
>>
>> [1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2021-August/621504.html
>> [2] 71b83227128be62c169313e85bb8f339f977ad67
>> [3] 7873a5bd5ebbeb1674293dae6b06b50f0a1f2184
>> [4] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2021-October/624596.html
>> [5] f816e5b276f1ef15840bec6667f1e8219717ab7d
>> [6] 58af9a70cc0f195116dedb3fd0e2ca5b4fec9e70
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Guo Ren <ren_guo at c-sky.com>
>> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> 
> I agree with the patch series. What I propose is to wait maybe 4-5 days
> to see if there is a reaction or some feedback from Guo Ren. And if
> there's no feedback, we apply in 4-5 days.

I had a reply from Guo, we can move forward and merge this series:

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2021-October/624866.html

Best regards,
Romain

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
>