On 4/23/21 2:36 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 12:12 AM 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built > Linux <clang-built-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Arnd, >> No one can build ARCH=hexagon and >> https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/759 has been open for >> 2 years. >> >> Trying to build >> $ ARCH=hexagon CROSS_COMPILE=hexagon-linux-gnu make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 -j71 >> >> shows numerous issues, the latest of which >> commit 8320514c91bea ("hexagon: switch to ->regset_get()") >> has a very obvious typo which misspells the `struct` keyword and has >> been in the tree for almost 1 year. > > Thank you for looking into it. > >> Why is arch/hexagon/ in the tree if no one can build it? > > Removing it sounds reasonable to me, it's been broken for too long, and > we did the same thing for unicore32 that was in the same situation > where the gcc port was too old to build the kernel and the clang > port never quite work in mainline. > > Guenter also brought up the issue a year ago, and nothing happened. > I see Brian still occasionally sends an Ack to a patch that gets merged > through another tree, but he has not send any patches or pull requests > himself after taking over maintainership from Richard Kuo in 2019, > and the four hexagon pull requests after 2014 only contained build fixes > from developers that don't have access to the hardware (Randy Dunlap, > Viresh Kumar, Mike Frysinger and me). > > Arnd > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/04ca01d633a8$9abb8070$d0328150$@codeaurora.org/ There is no current gcc C compiler in the 3 locations that I know of to look. The one I tried is v4.6 and it is too old to work with current makefiles. -- ~Randy
