Re: Thoughts on progressing Toolchain Working Group Lava integration

2013-04-16 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello Matt, There were quite a few responses already, so I'll try to focus on the questions to which I think I may contribute something useful. On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:49:23 +0100 Matthew Gretton-Dann wrote: > Paul, > > I've been having some thoughts about CBuild and Lava and the TCWG > inte

Re: Thoughts on progressing Toolchain Working Group Lava integration

2013-04-16 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 16.04.2013 15:46, schrieb Matthew Gretton-Dann: > On 16/04/13 14:08, Matthias Klose wrote: >> Am 16.04.2013 11:49, schrieb Matthew Gretton-Dann: >>> The issues I encountered were: >>> * Its hard to get a machine running in hard-float to bootstrap a >>> soft-float >>> compiler and vice-versa.

Re: Thoughts on progressing Toolchain Working Group Lava integration

2013-04-16 Thread Matthew Gretton-Dann
On 16/04/13 14:08, Matthias Klose wrote: Am 16.04.2013 11:49, schrieb Matthew Gretton-Dann: The issues I encountered were: * Its hard to get a machine running in hard-float to bootstrap a soft-float compiler and vice-versa. hmm, why? when using precise or quantal as the build environment, t

Re: g++ 4.7.3 ICEs building SNU

2013-04-16 Thread Matthias Klose
[CC'ing Martin] Am 15.04.2013 22:29, schrieb Tom Gall: > internal compiler error: output_operand: invalid operand for code 'P' > Please submit a full bug report, > with preprocessed source if appropriate. > See for instructions. > Preprocessed source stored into /tmp/cciluYVq.out file, please att

Re: Thoughts on progressing Toolchain Working Group Lava integration

2013-04-16 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 16.04.2013 11:49, schrieb Matthew Gretton-Dann: > The issues I encountered were: > * Its hard to get a machine running in hard-float to bootstrap a soft-float > compiler and vice-versa. hmm, why? when using precise or quantal as the build environment, then having these packages installed shou

Re: [Linaro-validation] Thoughts on progressing Toolchain Working Group Lava integration

2013-04-16 Thread Renato Golin
On 16 April 2013 13:28, Peter Maydell wrote: > The trouble with this approach (as you may be aware :-)) is that > if the board farm includes a few 'rare' board types that happen > to be covered by a broad system property criteria used by most > people, it can be tricky to schedule jobs which real

Re: [Linaro-validation] Thoughts on progressing Toolchain Working Group Lava integration

2013-04-16 Thread Peter Maydell
On 16 April 2013 13:19, Renato Golin wrote: > In the past, I have used a language that describes system properties to > reserve boards (like "A9 & NEON & RAM >= 1GB") that would give me a list of > available boards, when I'd choose one based on my own criteria. The trouble with this approach (as

Re: g++ 4.7.3 ICEs building SNU

2013-04-16 Thread Matthew Gretton-Dann
On 15/04/13 21:29, Tom Gall wrote: Hi, Feel free to point me at a newer toolchain. Was building the SNU OpenCL SDK native on my chromebook running ubuntu raring when I hit the following: make: Entering directory `/home/tgall/opencl/SNU/src/runtime/build/cpu' arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ - -mfpu=n

Re: [Linaro-validation] Thoughts on progressing Toolchain Working Group Lava integration

2013-04-16 Thread Renato Golin
On 16 April 2013 12:37, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > Good point, right now you have to explicitly ask for some device type > ... but if you want the quickest response, your best bet is to submit to > the faster devices. :-) > This is not the point, I think. For toolchain testing, specific CPU matte

Re: [Linaro-validation] Thoughts on progressing Toolchain Working Group Lava integration

2013-04-16 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:49:23AM +0100, Matthew Gretton-Dann wrote: > 2. Paul - how hard would it be to try and fire up a Calxeda node > into Lava? We can use one of the ones assigned to me. I don't need > any fancy multinode stuff that Michael Hudson-Doyle is working on - > each node can be c

Thoughts on progressing Toolchain Working Group Lava integration

2013-04-16 Thread Matthew Gretton-Dann
Paul, I've been having some thoughts about CBuild and Lava and the TCWG integration of them both. I wish to share them and open them up for general discussion. The background to this has been the flakiness of the Panda's (due to heat), the Arndale (due to board 'set-up' issues), and getting