GCC Testing Status

[Joel Sherrill]

Hi,

I didn't know if the community knew this or not so thought I
would post an update.

I have been reporting results on powerpc, sparc, mips, and i386
about twice a month for the GCC SVN trunk now for a while.
The test run takes ~24 hours on my dual core laptop and includes
building a native compiler, the crosses, an RTEMS BSP to test with,
and then running the tests for C, C++, and Ada.

I have an account on the GCC Compile Farm and plan to migrate to
there since those are much nicer machines to build on.  :-D

There are issues in the gcc testsuite where some tests fail because
they are really unsupported in the simulator/BSP configuration but
are not noted as such.  But ignoring this, the results are pretty good.

Obviously, it would be great to be able to test GCC for every RTEMS
port.  I have identified what it will take to add a few more targets to
the test set:

+ arm - We need a Skyeye BSP running well enough to trust it
    in batch mode.  
+ bfin - Same as arm
+ m68k - qemu has a mcf5206 configuration that should match
   the mcf5206elite BSP but we don't know how to run it yet.
+ sh - qemu also has an sh configuration.  We do not have a BSP for it.
   There is also a Sega Dreamcast simulator which might work for us.

As the above issues are addressed, more targets will be tested. The
above are good opportunities to play with RTEMS without having
to buy any special target hardware, learn, and contribute something
valuable.

-- 
Joel Sherrill, Ph.D.             Director of Research & Development
joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com        On-Line Applications Research
Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS  Huntsville AL 35805
   Support Available             (256) 722-9985