From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:11:20 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] toolchain: Bump ARC tools to arc-2017.09-eng008 In-Reply-To: <1505412449.3684.5.camel@synopsys.com> References: <20170914163702.2316-1-abrodkin@synopsys.com> <20170914192057.701cd74c@windsurf> <1505412449.3684.5.camel@synopsys.com> Message-ID: <20170914211120.6817efa7@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 18:07:30 +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > > If those new versions are now based on upstream gcc 7.x and binutils > > 2.29, why do we still use the Synopsys specific versions? Do you still > > have a large stack of patches on top of the upstream versions? > > Well not that many now but indeed something not yet hit > upstream release or might have been released a bit late for the last relese > or even after. > > Still thw next patch of mine will allow selection of upstream GCC and > Binutils for ARC. > > So for now this GitHub-hosted stuff is more for safety. I.e. once we see > autobuilder is quite happy with upstream components we'll consider removal of > arc-XXX stuff completely. This won't happen in this release cycle nor > in the next I guess but in the course of the year I hope we'll be able to do it > [if all goes well]. Fair enough. As long as it is in your plans to switch to use the upstream gcc/binutils at some point in the not too distant future, I'm fine with keeping an ARC-specific gcc version and binutils version. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com