[oe] [PATCH 6/6] angstrom: use GCC 4.3.3 for Geode devices

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> On 13-05-09 17:18, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:56:58PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> On 13-05-09 16:46, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>>>> From: Marcin Juszkiewicz<hrw at openembedded.org>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Marcin Juszkiewicz<hrw at openembedded.org>
>>
>> wrt that patch, is there a reason you aren't bumping ppc as well?  As an
>> old PPC guy, that's always had me perplexed..
>

Being old and having PPC boards on my desktop spaces as well I
recently got the same level of perplexity, but there's only myself to
blame.

I did recently look elsewhere:
http://www.oselas.com/oselas/toolchain/index_en.html

That OSELAS toolchain shows the following in its support grid:

gcc-4.3.2
glibc-2.8
linux-2.6.27

I extracted and built that toolchain. I saw no patches needed for ppc.

It doesn't mention binutils version - I can check my build.

> When adding PPC support I had loads of troubles compiling gcc and glibc due
> to sqrt and type size problems.
>
Ah, I remember.

> My efika is too busy serving stuff to serve as a testbed and my dht-walnut
> lacks a psu currently, so I'm a bit apprehensive about bumping toolchains
> without runtime testing them.
> If console-image actually builds with gcc 4.3.3 + binutils 2.18, that would
> be a *huge* step forward.
>
Agreed. The old PPC guys should check this first. :-) It's on my todo
(which gives zero information on if it ever gets of).

I only have e300 targets to test.

I (also) blew my EFIKA.


Regards,
-- 
Leon