Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:11:25 +0100 | From | Haavard Skinnemoen <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: Tree for March 27 |
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:54:59 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:32:26PM +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:47:45 +0200 > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > > According to Jan's page, there's still a build error with the defconfig: > > > http://l4x.org/k/?d=40450#err > > > > Hmm...that must be a pretty ancient toolchain. > > The oldest compiler the kernel currently supports is gcc 3.2, and > whenever it's reasonably possible (noone expects you to backport avr32 > support to gcc 3.2) the aim is to support all compilers back to gcc > 3.2, or at least as far as possible.
We do have some gcc 3.x patches lying around somewhere, but I don't think that's something we want to inflict on others ;-)
The first toolchain we ever released to the outside was based on gcc 4.0.2, so it is "ancient" in the sense that it has lots of avr32-specific bugs that later toolchains don't have. I agree that we should still try to support it as long as possible.
> BTW: What's the status of avr32 support in upstream binutils and gcc?
Still stuck in legal hell, I think.
Haavard
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