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

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Thilo Fromm <fromm at dresearch-fe.de> wrote:
>
> Removing gcc-4.5 would kill Texas Instruments DaVinci (dm814x, dm816x)
> support.

how so ? can you stick with denzil stable branch if you so heavily depend on 4.5
and meanwhile let the software stack for these SOCs ported to newer gcc
or is there anything that you absolutely need from master ?


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.