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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:26:04 +0100
From: "Leif Lindholm" <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
To: devel@edk2.groups.io, abner.chang@hpe.com
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RISC-V-V2 PATCH v1 11/22]: BaseTools: BaseTools changes for RISC-V platform.
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 02:08:53PM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> > > Please add the requisite support to the GCC5 profile instead. (Which
> > > is not actually for gcc 5, but is effectively GCC5+ - we are still
> > > successfully using it with gcc 9.)
> > 
> > I can try to use GCC5 profile but the toolchain still has to be
> > stick on https://github.com/riscv/riscv-gnu-toolchain @64879b24. We
> > got problem on the version higher than this, system hangs at SEC to
> > PEI transition if use GCC version higher than @64879b24.
> >
> > We will figure it out later.
> 
> I suppose this is fine as long as this is specifically on the
> edk2-staging branch. We will need to resolve it before we bring the
> port to edk2 master.
> 
> I would still like this support to be tweaked to the point where I can
> build with either the Fedora or the Debian packaged cross compiler.
> 
> > So how can I mention this restrictions in tool_def?
> 
> I would suggest the following:
> - The above information in the top-level Readme.md on the staging branch.
> - A single line in the "GCC5 RISCV64 definitions" comment block.
> - Adding the above to the commit message.

Oh, and please add information to that Readme.md on which toolchains
have successfully built this toolchain. Debian's gcc8 fails.

Best Regards,

Leif