Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:52:59 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Working upstream toolchain for avr32? |
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:41:58AM +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > 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.
First of all sorry for my late answer.
What you are saying is more or less what I was hoping to hear. :)
> > 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.
My point was that if there was _only_ support in some older toolchain, a few years from now there might no longer be a toolchain capable of compiling the then-current kernel.
> Haavard
cu Adrian
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