From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:30:28 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] Experimental addition of the newlib library In-Reply-To: <87fv23o686.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1442127768-26447-1-git-send-email-cjwfirmware@vxmdesign.com> <20150913101738.238ebc06@free-electrons.com> <20150915093523.0597731f@free-electrons.com> <20150915175354.GA3650@free.fr> <20150915213924.62547101@free-electrons.com> <87fv23o686.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20150925093028.34715322@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com