[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] binutils: Allow upstream 2.29 to be chosen for ARC

[Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>]

As of today quite a lot of ARC stuff got merged in upsream
such that we may finally use upstream realease for building
and even running Linux kernel and rootfs built with vanilla
binutils.

Essentially upstream release is still a bit behind our
GitHub-based releases but let's try to use vanilla version
and if we're lucky enough with just a small set of back-ported patches
we'll be able to use vanilla release(s) for everything in Buildroot.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
---

Changes v1->v2:

 * Use positive logic on selection of ARC tools in binutils.mk (Arnout)

 package/binutils/Config.in.host | 11 ++++++++---
 package/binutils/binutils.mk    |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package/binutils/Config.in.host b/package/binutils/Config.in.host
index 95144c8..4a2992a 100644
--- a/package/binutils/Config.in.host
+++ b/package/binutils/Config.in.host
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ comment "Binutils Options"
 
 choice
 	prompt "Binutils Version"
-	default BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_28_X
-	depends on !BR2_arc
+	default BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_28_X if !BR2_arc
+	default BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_ARC if BR2_arc
 	help
 	  Select the version of binutils you wish to use.
 
@@ -11,18 +11,23 @@ config BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_27_X
 	bool "binutils 2.27"
 	# binutils 2.27 triggers a bug in elf2flt on ARM/noMMU
 	depends on !(BR2_arm && !BR2_USE_MMU)
+	depends on !BR2_arc
 
 config BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_28_X
 	bool "binutils 2.28.1"
+	depends on !BR2_arc
 
 config BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_29_X
 	bool "binutils 2.29.1"
 
+config BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_ARC
+	bool "binutils arc (2.29)"
+	depends on BR2_arc
 endchoice
 
 config BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION
 	string
-	default "arc-2017.09-release"	if BR2_arc
+	default "arc-2017.09-release"	if BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_ARC
 	default "2.27"		if BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_27_X
 	default "2.28.1"	if BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_28_X
 	default "2.29.1"	if BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_29_X
diff --git a/package/binutils/binutils.mk b/package/binutils/binutils.mk
index d2bf5b9..e802952 100644
--- a/package/binutils/binutils.mk
+++ b/package/binutils/binutils.mk
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ BINUTILS_VERSION = 2.28.1
 endif
 endif # BINUTILS_VERSION
 
-ifeq ($(BR2_arc),y)
+ifeq ($(BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_ARC),y)
 BINUTILS_SITE = $(call github,foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors,binutils-gdb,$(BINUTILS_VERSION))
 BINUTILS_SOURCE = binutils-$(BINUTILS_VERSION).tar.gz
 BINUTILS_FROM_GIT = y
-- 
2.10.2