On 2015-07-19, Holger Levsen wrote:
All this said, if you send me patches, I will probably deploy them as I'm very curious and more reproducibility efforts are good :-) We can can always decide to remove or move them later.
I wish to make all contributions upstream. What would really help at first would be to have all targets built regularly to see where work is needed. This is where I think the Debian infrastructure could help, in a similar way as what was started for Coreboot.
FWIW, I was planning on including this patch to u-boot in the next upload to Debian:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/u-boot.git/tree/debian/patches/...
I *think* that actually makes u-boot build reproducibly with Debian's reproducible builds toolchain when SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set, but I haven't tested it fully. I might have missed some other sources of non-determinism...
Hoping to get some armhf buildd nodes up an running soonish... although it should also be buildable with the cross-toolchains, if the reproducible buildds coulld be made to support that.
live well, vagrant