Jan Matyas

It is becoming clear that the top-of-tree builds of GDB from buildbot.embecosm.com are at this time not a good stable point to test OpenOCD against. The assert issue for software...

> Would you consider using a crosstool-NG build of the tools from upstream repositories? That is a possibility, however that would make the per-commit checks run too long. For that...

> I mean build the tools once (or whenever there are "significant" changes to the upstream repos - gcc, gdb/binutils, newlib etc.) and then use those toolchain binaries. Not doing...

@timsifive - I thought about picking up this dormant pull request but it seems that many of the tests now fail due to timeouts. An example can be seen here:...

> Between #616 and [riscv/riscv-tests#339](https://github.com/riscv/riscv-tests/pull/339) the timeout problem should be resolved. Thanks. Both these changes appear fine. The tests now pass within the Gitlab CI: https://github.com/JanMatCodasip/riscv-openocd/runs/2771597698 I still do get...

> I'm now running the whole test set repeatedly to try to pinpoint which tests do intermittently fail. [Yesterday's CI run](https://github.com/JanMatCodasip/riscv-openocd/runs/2773095949) timed out before reaching the 10 cycles, however there...

> [Today's CI run](https://github.com/JanMatCodasip/riscv-openocd/runs/2782391693) has the timeout extended and all the 10 cycles should complete. So it seems I cannot specify longer timeout than 6 hrs for one CI step....

The CI runs have finished now. There were 30 full test cycles executed in total (`riscv-tests/debug`, `make all`), split to 6 CI runs: [1](https://github.com/JanMatCodasip/riscv-openocd/runs/2790582176?check_suite_focus=true), [2](https://github.com/JanMatCodasip/riscv-openocd/runs/2790588767?check_suite_focus=true), [3](https://github.com/JanMatCodasip/riscv-openocd/runs/2790593276?check_suite_focus=true), [4](https://github.com/JanMatCodasip/riscv-openocd/runs/2790597774?check_suite_focus=true), [5](https://github.com/JanMatCodasip/riscv-openocd/runs/2790601360?check_suite_focus=true), [6](https://github.com/JanMatCodasip/riscv-openocd/runs/2790604443?check_suite_focus=true). Intermittent...

@timsifive - Hi, I thought about reviving this merge request for the CI. After rebasing and re-running the tests on current code, I got multiple failures on `Sv##` tests. More...

Another report with accumulated results from 5x test runs: https://github.com/JanMatCodasip/riscv-openocd/runs/4114445337?check_suite_focus=true#step:9:1885 The pattern of failures/exceptions is the same as above.