[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4] arch: add option to disable internal toolchain backend

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

Thanks for working on this!

On Sat,  2 Sep 2017 21:38:49 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> +# For some architectures or specific cores, our internal toolchain
> +# backend is not suitable (like, missing support in upstream gcc, or
> +# no ChipCo fork exists...)
> +config BR2_ARCH_NO_INTERNAL_BACKEND
> +	bool

I'm not a big fan of the option name. What about:

config BR2_ARCH_HAS_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT
	bool
	default y if !BR2_ARCH_HAS_NO_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT

config BR2_ARCH_HAS_NO_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT
	bool

So, arches can select BR2_ARCH_HAS_NO_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT, and else
we can "depends on BR2_ARCH_HAS_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT".

> diff --git a/toolchain/Config.in b/toolchain/Config.in
> index 584d053058..919757e558 100644
> --- a/toolchain/Config.in
> +++ b/toolchain/Config.in
> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ choice
>  config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT
>  	bool "Buildroot toolchain"
>  	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SHADOW_PASSWORDS
> +	depends on !BR2_ARCH_NO_INTERNAL_BACKEND
>  	depends on !BR2_bf606
>  	depends on !BR2_bf607
>  	depends on !BR2_bf608

Now that I think of it: we have dropped the Blackfin ADI external
toolchain. Therefore, we currently have no in-tree solution to use/test
bf606, bf607, bf608, etc. Perhaps we should drop them instead ?

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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