[TOOLCHAIN][GCC][LINUX][GPL] SaberMod - arm/arm64

[sparksco]

As many of you know, SaberMod has been in this community for several years now, and has quite a good standing amongst developers. This will greatly improve performance and overall speed of a ROM and or kernel, as well as battery life in most cases. This will be a place for developers to compile and use their own SaberMod toolchains. And also post their own builds here for others to use if they wish. It should be noted that most of these operations will require root access in a Linux terminal in order to install required packages. If you report issues with kernel building with very limited information, do not expect help. Expected information. Kernel source and logcat at a minimum. We compile kernels for devices we have and that is all. So chances are, if it's not a device we have or build for, your post will go ignored.

With that said, I will keep this short and sweet.

For full instructions, system requirements and setup, see the README located on our source hosting website.

What makes these toolchains unique?
This is something I'd rather leave up to the developers who use these to answer for us. So please let us know!

Where can I get these toolchains?

All of the prebuilt toolchains can be found on sabermod site
However this thread will be mainly for compiling and using the toolchains you've compiled yourself. If you really want to use the ones we compile, create a account on gitlab and use git clone with ssh instead of https (https has issues currently that gitlab is working on) to download the toolchains.

How can I use these toolchains?

Reference this post
Or see other ROM sources on SaberLab

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Contributors
sparksco, joshuabg, frap129 AOSP, GNU.
GPL SaberMod

 

[sparksco]

Feel free to post questions about compiling your ROMs and kernels with the toolchains of your choice, including but not limited to ROM and kernel optimizations. We will try to help the best we can [emoji6]

 

[frap129]

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EDIT: Just something quick to add to OP on compiling toolchains, an extra flag you can add to gcc configure in the buildscript is --with-cpu=cortex-(your variant here). For example, most modern qualcomm devices will benefit from --with-cpu=cortex-a15

 

[Xileforce]

Can't wait to see what comes out of this thread!

 

[sparksco]

Can't wait to see what comes out of this thread!

Well the goal is for people to learn how they can compile SaberMod toolchains to use in their ROMs/kernels. But also for general support and questions for using in the ROMs/kernels.

 

[Xileforce]

Well the goal is for people to learn how they can compile SaberMod toolchains to use in their ROMs/kernels. But also for general support and questions for using in the ROMs/kernels.

I may end up attempting a compile of my own SM TC one of these days. Ill definitely be lurking around and attempting to learn

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By the way does the 5.0 source you have on gitlab include the PThreads fix?

 

[sparksco]

I may end up attempting a compile of my own SM TC one of these days. Ill definitely be lurking around and attempting to learn

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By the way does the 5.0 source you have on gitlab include the PThreads fix?

No. I'm uploading a test arm-eabi-5.0 for now. Source will come at a later time once we know everything works OK. It worked OK for me except I couldn't use graphite in conjunction with pthreads.

 

[Xileforce]

No. I'm uploading a test arm-eabi-5.0 for now. Source will come at a later time once we know everything works OK. It worked OK for me except I couldn't use graphite in conjunction with pthreads.

Roger that, I'll be lurking

 

[sparksco]

Roger that, I'll be lurking

It's ready. You'll probably need to use ssh link to download, since gitlab is working on some issues with https links timing out and not allowing to download. Let us know how it goes!
https://gitlab.com/SaberMod/arm-eabi-5.0

 

[Xileforce]

It's ready. You'll probably need to use ssh link to download, since gitlab is working on some issues with https links timing out and not allowing to download. Let us know how it goes!
https://gitlab.com/SaberMod/arm-eabi-5.0

Will do

 

[sparksco]

Will do

whoops, pushed the wrong branch! It should be on test branch. Stand by

 

[Xileforce]

whoops, pushed the wrong branch! It should be on test branch. Stand by

I was so close!

 

[sparksco]

I was so close!

Yeah sorry about that I'm so used to pushing to master branch.. Are you using git clone or git fetch? The default branch is master. So if you use git clone make sure to add -b test on the end. For git fetch just adding test on the end should do.

 

[Xileforce]

Yeah sorry about that I'm so used to pushing to master branch.. Are you using git clone or git fetch? The default branch is master. So if you use git clone make sure to add -b test on the end. For git fetch just adding test on the end should do.

im confused its only showing 1 branch for arm-eabi 5.0

 

[sparksco]

im confused its only showing 1 branch for arm-eabi 5.0

Yes it's nearly done within seconds
Just wanted to make sure you get the right branch that's all..

Edit done

 

[Xileforce]

Yes it's nearly done within seconds
Just wanted to make sure you get the right branch that's all..

Edit done

I get
"Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository."

 

[sparksco]

I get
"Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository."

Well for ssh you have to make a gitlab account and add your ssh keys to your account profile just like github.

 

[Xileforce]

Well for ssh you have to make a gitlab account and add your ssh keys to your account profile just like github.

dam I am such a noob. Thanks its already done . I never use ssh.

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Gah! I'm trying to remove all the graphite stuff...and I thought i did but its still erroring. May have to look again in the morning when I can hop on PC. Doing this thru teamviewer on phone is tedious to say the least lol

 

[sparksco]

dam I am such a noob. Thanks its already done . I never use ssh.

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Gah! I'm trying to remove all the graphite stuff...and I thought i did but its still erroring. May have to look again in the morning when I can hop on PC. Doing this thru teamviewer on phone is tedious to say the least lol

So your getting the same errors? Must be gcc 5.0 that can't handle both at the same time. If you want tomorrow I'll upload a test gcc 4.9 version. maybe the bugs in gcc 5.0 will get fixed eventually from gnu.

 

[Xileforce]

So your getting the same errors? Must be gcc 5.0 that can't handle both at the same time. If you want tomorrow I'll upload a test gcc 4.9 version. maybe the bugs in gcc 5.0 will get fixed eventually from gnu.

No worries. I'll keep trying to get this working. Just gotta find wherever the last of my graphite flags are hiding is GCC 5 a noticeable performance improvement over GCC 4.9.3?