Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:41:58 +0100
From: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Working upstream toolchain for avr32?
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:56:17 +0100
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:

> AFAIK the latest available AVR32 toolchains are some patched gcc 4.0 and 
> some patched binutils 2.17, and avr32 is currently the only architecture 
> in the kernel where upstream of both of them is not capable of building 
> a kernel for the architecture.

gcc 4.2 is available from www.atmel.com. But I agree that it's
unfortunate that avr32 support isn't available upstream.

> ALthough not technically a requirement, it would be nice if all Linux 
> kernel archs could be compiled with plain upstream toolchains.

We're working on it. I believe the legal issues around copyright
assignment, etc. are mostly sorted out now, so I'm hoping we'll start
pushing things upstream early next year.

> Even more since at some point in the future [1] current toolchains might 
> no longer be able to compile the then current kernels.

I'm not sure if I understood that, but I guess it's always good to have
older versions of the toolchain around.

Haavard
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