From d29ed4ac45ba8e05e95818e3ff2e56ead3f43bd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Georgi Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 13:49:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/31804 Reviewed-by: Angel Pons Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) --- Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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.