[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] Experimental addition of the newlib library

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:30:33 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > Maybe we first need to get an agreement on whether we want to merge
>  > something such a newlib toolchain support and NuttX support. On my
>  > side, I believe I am quite favorable to that, but I was also favorable
>  > to Luca's patch series on the mdev stuff without devtmpfs, which is why
>  > Luca started working on this, but in the end, it got turned down.
> 
> I wouldn't call it "getting turned down", I simply wanted to make it
> clear that just working around old kernels in mdev wouldn't fix the
> various other packages that haven't ever been tested on such ancient
> kernels, and for the mdev issue a simpler fix would just be to backport
> devtmpfs support to the kernel.
> 
> I must say that my initial thought when seeing the newlib patches was
> that this was really outside the scope of Buildroot, but the patches ARE
> quite small and self contained, so if there is interest it might make
> sense after all.
> 
> I does require that we basically stick the entire package/ under an
> ifndef NEWLIB (and system / fs / linux as well), and it will stay a
> lower priority than the normal Linux stuff, but if that can be done
> at a high enough level then that is probably ok.
> 
> I recently bought one of those cheap arduino clones with a stm32f103
> (m3) for tinkering, so I might even use it myself! ;)

Great, thanks for the feedback. Then we'll continue to work with Chris
to provide a proper solution.

Thanks!

Thomas
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