On 12 August 2014 20:28, Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> wrote: > Greetings! > > Will Newton <will.new...@linaro.org> writes: > >> On 11 August 2014 20:25, Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> wrote: >>> Greetings! I'm planning a 2.6.11 release in about a week, so if anyone >>> has any comments, now is the time :-). Specifically, I'd like to know >>> if anyone wants/uses a windows installer, or simply builds from source. >>> Skipping this step simplifies things a lot. >> >> If possible it would be nice to get the AArch64 enablement in 2.6.11. >> Is there anything outstanding that needs to be fixed with those >> changes? >> >> Thanks, > > I think we are waiting here for reloc support for the custreloc linking > option, no? Right now, we are in the very favorable position of having > all supported targets use custreloc. dlopen requires complex additional > support for applications outside of gcl, and is to be regarded as an > emergency or trial build option at the present time. I'd really hate to > spoil this uniformity and complicate the support of 2.6.11 going > forward, especially since I'm adding support for R_ARM_THM_JUMP24 at the > moment, so this stuff is relatively fresh in my mind.
custreloc is working, but lacks trampolines. The branch distance is +/-128MB which seems sufficient on the cygwin branch but not master where the heap seems to grow much more quickly. > I can walk you through the steps to get this working via email if you'd > like, but it would be a lot faster if there was ssh access to a > development box. I'll ask on debian-arm, but please see if you can dig > around and arrange this, just temporarily. I think debian-arm is a good place to ask, there should be some ARM and Linaro people on that list who may be able to arrange access to hardware. -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
