On 06/27/2017 07:47 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > Hi Hauke, > > On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 22:45 +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> On 06/26/2017 05:03 PM, Evgeniy Didin wrote: >>> >>> arc-2017.03 is the most recent release toolchain for ARC cores >>> and it is based on upstream Binutils 2.28 and GCC 6.3.0 >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Didin <di...@synopsys.com> >>> Cc: Alexey Brodkin <abrod...@synopsys.com> >>> Cc: John Crispin <j...@phrozen.org> >>> --- >> >> When will the ARC CPU be supported in mainline gcc and binutils so we do >> not have to use a special arc toolchain any more? > > Well I may say that ARC is supported upstream already. > In fact our recent releases only differ a little bit from upstream master > of both Binutils and GCC. > > The problem for us is we still develop both Binutils and GCC pretty actively > compared to other arches (this is especially true for Binutils) and delta > between > our dev tree and the last upstream release might become quite significant in > a few > months. > > Still the plan for us is to switch to upstream tarballs + a set of patches on > top > of that in coming months. > > Now why we did that particular update with forks from our Github > is we want to move with smaller steps. See in arc-2017.03 release we > upgraded GCC from 6.2 to 6.3 and what's much more important Binutils from > 2.27 (which was way too different from upstream version) to 2.28 which even > in upstream tarball has most our our stuff integrated already. > > With that we want to make sure packages get built and built system is usable. > > Stay tuned. > > -Alexey
Hi Alexey, I was just asking because I saw in the GCC 7.X and binutils 2.28 changelog that support for some ARC CPUs was added. I am ok with this patch, as I see that you war working on getting your changes upstream, so we can switch to the mainline version of gcc and binutils in the future. Hauke _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
