Re: MIPS GDB Buildbot slave running Debian Jessie

[Brendan Kirby <brendan.kirby@imgtec.com>]

On 07/13/2015 02:55 PM, pinskia@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Jul 14, 2015, at 5:32 AM, Brendan Kirby <brendan.kirby@imgtec.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm interested in setting up a GDB Buildbot slave on a MIPS board.  The
>> board is an Edge Router Pro board running Debian Jessie. I've
>> configured, built and run the GDB test suite on it based on the steps
>> other builders are using in the GDB Buildbot master.  Due to what looks
>> like I-cache coherency issues in the kernel the board needs to be run
>> with no SMP.  Otherwise it builds and runs the test suite correctly. 
>> We're passing over 23,000 of the GDB tests, but we still have 400 to 500
>> test failures.  Would it be possible to get this board added to the GDB
>> Buildbot?  If so, could you send me or point me at the config.json and
>> the master.cfg files so that I can send a patch?
> There is no I cache coherency issues I know with respect of the octeon inside the edge router pro. Maybe it is just kernel version issue. I would run 4.1 on it as that should have most if not all octeon support in it. 
I'm actually running the 4.1.1 kernel from kernel.org on this board.  I
can send the results from a big and little endian run if that will
help.  Also, I can try it on 4.1.2 which I think just came out last week.

Brendan