[oe] [toolchain-layer][pull-request] Remove old toolchain recipes

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Wed May 16 11:01:12 UTC 2012


On 2012-05-16 04:50, Thilo Fromm wrote:
> Hello *.*,
>
>> Khem Raj (3):
>>       eglibc-2.12: Remove
>>       binutils-2.20: Remove
>>       gcc-4.5: Remove
>
> Removing gcc-4.5 would kill Texas Instruments DaVinci (dm814x, dm816x)
> support. You only get a heavily patched 2.6.37 kernel from TI for
> these (linux-ti81xx-psp_2.6.37). Unfortunately gcc>= 4.6 is unable to
> build a kernel which boots for these platforms. After
>
> Uncompressing linux ... booting the kernel
>
> there is silence. We can reproduce this reliably on a ti8148-evm
> development board. My best guess is it's because of an ancient kernel
> being compiled with a very recent GCC.

I build with GCC 4.6.3 from that tree for the DM8148 all the time and
it works fine.  Maybe there is some option/selection in your configuration
that's not in mine?  Can you send it & I'll give it a compare?

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