Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:11:25 +0100
From: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for March 27
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:54:59 +0200
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:32:26PM +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:47:45 +0200
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > According to Jan's page, there's still a build error with the defconfig:
> > >   http://l4x.org/k/?d=40450#err  
> > 
> > Hmm...that must be a pretty ancient toolchain.  
> 
> The oldest compiler the kernel currently supports is gcc 3.2, and 
> whenever it's reasonably possible (noone expects you to backport avr32 
> support to gcc 3.2) the aim is to support all compilers back to gcc 
> 3.2, or at least as far as possible.

We do have some gcc 3.x patches lying around somewhere, but I don't
think that's something we want to inflict on others ;-)

The first toolchain we ever released to the outside was based on gcc
4.0.2, so it is "ancient" in the sense that it has lots of
avr32-specific bugs that later toolchains don't have. I agree that we
should still try to support it as long as possible.

> BTW: What's the status of avr32 support in upstream binutils and gcc?

Still stuck in legal hell, I think.

Haavard
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