Re: [PATCH 01/20] Hexagon HVX (target/hexagon) README

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

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On 7/19/21 11:19 AM, Sid Manning wrote:>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Cain <bcain@quicinc.com>
>> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 8:40 AM
>> To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>; Taylor Simpson
>> <tsimpson@quicinc.com>; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sid Manning
>> <sidneym@quicinc.com>
>> Cc: ale@rev.ng; peter.maydell@linaro.org; richard.henderson@linaro.org;
>> philmd@redhat.com
>> Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 01/20] Hexagon HVX (target/hexagon)
>> README
>> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
>> ...
>> > On 7/12/21 8:42 AM, Brian Cain wrote:
>> ...
>> > > and there's also a binary hexagon-linux cross toolchain that we
>> > > shared for use by kernel developers.  The hexagon linux toolchain is
>> > > built on Ubuntu 16.04.
>> >
>> > Where's that one?
>> 
>> https://codelinaro.jfrog.io/artifactory/codelinaro-qemu/2021-05-
>> 12/clang+llvm-12.0.0-cross-hexagon-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz -
>> 	- Built on Ubuntu 16.04, similar dynamic dependencies as
>> releases.llvm.org binaries

Indeed, in a "that also does not run on devuan, which is 99% stock debian" way. :(

Luckily, I built a working hexagon toolchain with the attached script, as in
"qemu-hexagon ran a statically linked toybox", and it even built a kernel.

I'm still trimming the build script down, that clang-rt section is WAY too big,
and I need to static link the binaires it produces so I can tar 'em up and use
them under a different distro, and I haven't even _started_ making a native
toolchain yet.[1]

Next question: is there a qemu-system-hexagon anywhere?

I mentioned I built a comet_defconfig kernel, ala:

LLVM_IAS=1
CROSS_COMPILE=~/toybox/hexagon/ccc/cross_bin/hexagon-unknown-linux-musl- make
ARCH=hexagon CC=~/toybox/hexagon/ccc/cross_bin/hexagon-unknown-linux-musl-cc

Which is kinda silly because:

1) Other packages figure out that ${CROSS}cc works but Linux insists on
${CROSS}gcc, and you can't even do "CC=cc make" because then it won't add the
cross compiler prefix. (And if I say LLVM=1 on the kernel command line, which I
shouldn't have to do, it uses _unprefixed_ clang as the $CC name, despite cross
compiling.)

2) If you don't set LLVM_IAS it tries to call the UNPREFIXED assembler, again
while cross compiling.

Anyway, I've got a compiler now and I (awkwardly) built a kernel and I'm sitting
down to try to figure out how to get qemu to invoke it: does this arch want
vmlinux or arch/hexagon/boot/$RANDOMFORMAT, is serial on console=ttyS0 or
/significant/dev/prefix/ttyasparagus0 or...

See https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/scripts/mkroot.sh#L186 for the
other architectures I've already added to toybox's mkroot, yes I have a ~250
line bash script that builds bootable Linux systems for a bunch of different
architectures and adding a new architecture looks like:

elif [ "$TARGET" == m68k ]; then
QEMU="m68k -M q800" KARCH=m68k KARGS=ttyS0 VMLINUX=vmlinux
KCONF=MMU,M68040,M68KFPU_EMU,MAC,SCSI_MAC_ESP,MACINTOSH_DRIVERS,ADB,ADB_MACII,NET_CORE,MACSONIC,SERIAL_PMACZILOG,SERIAL_PMACZILOG_TTYS,SERIAL_PMACZILOG_CONSOLE

(There's a little documentation at https://landley.net/toybox/faq.html#mkroot if
you're curious.)

Anyway... it doesn't look like qemu-system-hexagon (softmmu) its currently in
vanilla qemu? Is there a public fork that has this somewhere?

Thanks,

Rob

[1] Why does https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#cross-compiling-llvm talk
about osx? Dear compiler writers: a compiler is conceptually the same as an html
to pdf converter. It takes input files, it produces output files. Yes some of
the input files are common library stuff like fonts reused by multiple
input/output pairs... again like an html to pdf converter. This is not
unprecedented black magic. Sure it's clever. So was Quake, which has now been
genericized into a broad industry from WoW to Skyrim.

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