Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 31/43] tests/tcg: enable building for MIPS

[Peter Maydell]

On 20 April 2018 at 03:57, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/19/2018 02:58 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> I don't think we really want to get into the business of
>> building our own cross compilers if we can avoid it...it's harder
>> than it looks and we would be essentially reinventing the wheel.
>
> I totally agree.
>
> I'v been looking at existing maintained images we can use to
> cross-build, so we only have to pull (download) and image and use it,
> not wasting cpu time building it.

Projects that are in the "maintain cross toolchains" business:
 * buildroot
 * https://github.com/richfelker/musl-cross-make

But really my feeling is that we should for the moment stick
to getting a reliable test setup for the architectures that
Debian does provide cross toolchains for. That will give us:
 * much more coverage than we have at the moment
 * coverage for the guests that people actually care about

We can always come back and think about filling in the gaps later.

thanks
-- PMM