On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:27:50 +0200 Robert Schuster <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > Angstrom's default GCC is 4.3.3 for ARM. Unfortunately that version > lacks atomic intrinsics support for the very same architecture > (__sync_synchronize and friends). The support is available from 4.4.x > onwards but a patch exists in Ubuntu's GCC that adds the intrinsics to > the earlier GCC version. I would like add that patch to our GCC 4.3.x > (all of them so there is not suddenly a feature missing when one > changes from one microversion to another). This has the potential for > drastic effects on other recipes because a lot of programs (e.g. > pulseaudio, llvm) check for the availability of the intrinsics and > make use of them in that case. > > I ask for comments here because I would also like to see this change > move into OE stable later on. (The use case is to get OpenJDK with the > Shark JIT compiler [llvm-based] to run on the bug20 hardware). > > Regards, > Robert This sounds like it would require a DISTRO_PR bump on the Angstrom side which I am fine with, but we need to synchronize so there are enough Angstrom developers to re-fill the feeds on bump day. Otherwise I think this is a very good idea. Graeme _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
