Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:41:58 +0100 | From | Haavard Skinnemoen <> | Subject | Re: Working upstream toolchain for avr32? |
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:56:17 +0100 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> AFAIK the latest available AVR32 toolchains are some patched gcc 4.0 and > some patched binutils 2.17, and avr32 is currently the only architecture > in the kernel where upstream of both of them is not capable of building > a kernel for the architecture.
gcc 4.2 is available from www.atmel.com. But I agree that it's unfortunate that avr32 support isn't available upstream.
> ALthough not technically a requirement, it would be nice if all Linux > kernel archs could be compiled with plain upstream toolchains.
We're working on it. I believe the legal issues around copyright assignment, etc. are mostly sorted out now, so I'm hoping we'll start pushing things upstream early next year.
> Even more since at some point in the future [1] current toolchains might > no longer be able to compile the then current kernels.
I'm not sure if I understood that, but I guess it's always good to have older versions of the toolchain around.
Haavard
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