Hi Brendan,
will this newlib support for msp430 have support for the MSP430X cpus?
I assume.
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Brendan Conoboy <b...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/05/2013 11:24 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> > Kudos to Peter Bigot for maintaining MSP430 toolchain for so long and
> > for getting it to the level of support that it has today. Kudos also
> > to RedHat people like Brendan Conoboy for committing to ongoing
> > support.
> >
> > Having said that, could I suggest some public or private coordination
> > between the two teams? Peter has extensive knowledge of this
> > toolchain and I'm sure that anyone working in this area would benefit
> > from his advice---but I have a sense that he is not involved with
> > whatever is happening at RedHat. In the interest of the MSP430
> > community, could you guys brief each other on your plans and such? I
> > have a feeling that this is something doable via a fairly short phone
> > conversation.
>
> Peter and I had a nice chat early on, but out of necessity we did the
> port without his considerable expertise. I think gcc is just about
> ready to be checked in, at which point the upstream sources will be
> complete and available for everybody to use without special patching.
> Once that completes, I will send a note, but also: I would like to
> encourage everybody who wants to contribute to the new tools to submit
> their patches upstream: This makes sure every future release is the best
> release ever.
>
> > I do know that Brendan super busy because of his involvement with the
> > Fedora/Redhat ARM project, which is booming now, what with it becoming
> > an official Fedora architecture and with the buzz and activity around
> > Beaglebone Black---nevertheless, I hope something could be done re.
> > MSP430 in the short term.
>
> Fedora-ARM is a demanding mistress :-) Fortunately the engineers doing
> the real work on the MSP 430 GNU tools can give it much more attention:
> Kevin Buettner, DJ Delorie, and Nick Clifton. Hopefully TI will have an
> update of their own in the near future. Cheers,
>
> --
> Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / b...@redhat.com
>
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