On (24/11/11 11:59), Philip Balister wrote: > On 11/22/2011 12:59 PM, Ken Werner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently reading the OpenEmbedded User Manual and wondering what's > > the best way to add a layer for the Linaro toolchain components (Linaro > > GCC, Linaro GDB). This is my first time with OE. I just setup the > > environment and started to build an image that targets qemuarm (bitbake > > is still building). Any suggestions or general help is much appreciated. > > Can you comment on what you expect to get out of the Linaro toolchain layer? > > As had been noted here, OE already has some of the Linaro work in the > toolchains. However, we have had issues with some patches so we can't > run a "complete Linaro toolchain". (Toolchain guys, correct me if I am > wrong)
thats correct more often some patches whcih work on arm dont work on other architectures so the patcheses we cherry pick usually exclude such regressing patches and its a bit of work to identify them but on positive side the patches we take get tested on wider architectures. Also we only take gcc patches no other components > > From my perspective, the Linaro work is great (I primarily use Cortex-A8 > devices), but my understanding is that due to Linaro's focus on advanced > ARM processors, regressions for other architectures and older arms can > occur. > > So I see the point of a dedicated Linaro tool layer being an excellent > vehicle for testing Linaro's work on a diverse set of machines to make > life easier for people using Linaro's work on other architectures. linaro layer would be a good idea although I think from distro point of view they would want a single toolchain doing all architectures and still would want advantages of linaro work so if this layer takes care of fixing toolchain for non arm architectures it will be a lot of value to distros using OE but as such having layer would be a good thing as well. > > Philip > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- -Khem _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
