Re: [PATCH 6/6] angstrom: use GCC 4.3.3 for Geode devices

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

On 13-05-09 20:01, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Koen Kooi<k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>  wrote:
>> On 13-05-09 17:18, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:56:58PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>> On 13-05-09 16:46, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>>>>> From: Marcin Juszkiewicz<hrw@openembedded.org>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Marcin Juszkiewicz<hrw@openembedded.org>
>>>
>>> wrt that patch, is there a reason you aren't bumping ppc as well?  As an
>>> old PPC guy, that's always had me perplexed..
>>
>
> Being old and having PPC boards on my desktop spaces as well I
> recently got the same level of perplexity, but there's only myself to
> blame.
>
> I did recently look elsewhere:
> http://www.oselas.com/oselas/toolchain/index_en.html
>
> That OSELAS toolchain shows the following in its support grid:
>
> gcc-4.3.2
> glibc-2.8
> linux-2.6.27
>
> I extracted and built that toolchain. I saw no patches needed for ppc.

The move to a newer glibc is also in the works, but that requires 
testing as well. That will happen next month to give the gcc+binutils 
change enough time to show bugs.

regards,

Koen