[PATCH] [DOCS] How to Build on ARM

[Sean Silva]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org>wrote:

> Hi Mikael, Sean,
>
> First, I think we have two different documents there. One, how to prepare
> stable, good quality buildbots. The other, how to build on ARM,
> specifically ARM buildbots. We shouldn't bundle all that into
> HowToBuildOnARM.
>

HowToBuildOnARM has always been mostly like a "grab bag of tips related to
building on ARM", so I'm not too worried. The name is sort of unfortunate;
I can't imagine that building on ARM is so vastly different from a regular
build as to require content at a HowTo level (i.e. let me hold your hand
and walk you through this procedure step by step).


>
> Second, the notes on the dev boards was my mere opinion based on very
> little experimentation, I'd never put that on an official (long lasting)
> documentation, especially naming names and all that. Having this on the
> mailing list's history is one thing, having that bundled with LLVM on every
> release from now on is a different thing. If you want to say "ARM dev
> boards are notoriously unstable", that's fine, they all are, but please
> don't name them. Plus, they will be less unstable as time passes, since
> they're becoming less and less "dev" and more and more "rack boxes", which
> means testing will increase, price will decrease, etc.
>

Besides removing the unnecessarily negative tone (which I think is a good
idea, please do this Mikael), I don't see this fundamentally making this
content unfit for being on this page. The primary goal of our documentation
is to provide information that is useful for our users, and I think this
information is useful.


> That comment will be almost irrelevant in a few years from now.
>

Sure. In addition, I'm looking forward to the day we have 128-core 256GB
AArch64 boxes in our fleet ;) but in the meantime some hints to grease the
gears for people that are building on ARM doesn't hurt.

-- Sean Silva


>
> thanks!
> --renato
>
>
> On 15 November 2013 04:49, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:
>
>> LGTM. Renato, can you check off on this and commit it?
>>
>> -- Sean Silva
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at lyngvig.org>wrote:
>>
>>> The patch adds Renatos very valuable tips and tricks for using ARM
>>> development boards to the ARM build documentation.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mikael
>>>
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