Hi! Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> here's a patch series I've been sitting on for about a year. It's a compiler > for bare-metal binaries targetting arm-none-eabi. I'm using this successfully > to compile ChibiOS for the Axoloti Core board. Awesome, congrats! > I've chosen to package the particular compiler version that is used for the > Axoloti Core, so this is equivalent to what the GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain > project provides with the "4.9-2015-q2-update" release (see > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/209776344/release.txt). I used SVN revisions > because certain ARM patches are not part of the standard release tarball; they > are only in SVN. > > I did update newlib to the very latest release, however, because it seems to > work just fine. > > I don't know if it's okay to keep older versions of the cross compiler. For > version 4.9 the GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain project made another release > "4.9-2015-q3-update". It's probably better to at least use the upstream > versions they used for that release instead of basing things on > "4.9-2015-q2-update". OK. Too bad the released versions lack these bits. > I have no idea if we can build our own version of 4.9 from a later revision, > because I don't know exactly what patches I'd need to backport. If somebody > knows better I'd appreciate hints. I don’t know, but I think it’s important to provide release tarballs rather than intermediate revisions (except of course in the case of this Axoloti cross-compiler). Thanks! Ludo’.
