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| author | Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> | 2019-03-07 13:49:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> | 2019-03-08 10:00:52 +0000 |
| commit | d29ed4ac45ba8e05e95818e3ff2e56ead3f43bd1 (patch) | |
| tree | bc33cf2cac30c65117b8e54b3137fea9b5adc8a8 | |
| parent | ef7a3267870f126cc2f815812cfe54500853d2b8 (diff) | |
Docs/project_ideas: Expand "toolchain" project description
One-off packages do us little good, we need to be able to automate
building them.
Change-Id: Idd9b6b231435ea9d6e946c7ccaa71174b497742c
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/31804
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md b/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md index da51246525..d16e9fe6a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md +++ b/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md @@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ Provide packages/installers of our compiler toolchain for Linux distros, Windows, Mac OS. For Windows, this should also include the environment (shell, make, ...). +The scripts to generate these packages should be usable on a Linux +host, as that's what we're using for our automated build testing system +that we could extend to provide current packages going forward. This +might include automating some virtualization system (eg. QEMU or CrosVM) for +non-Linux builds or Docker for different Linux distributions. + ### Requirements * coreboot knowledge: Should know how to build coreboot images and where the compiler comes into play in our build system. |