From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Larsson Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:13:24 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Sparc Leon support in Buildroot In-Reply-To: <20140820140514.67f9fb23@free-electrons.com> References: <20140701202206.153b2cf6@free-electrons.com> <53F4800D.2060307@gaisler.com> <20140820140514.67f9fb23@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <54072204.3020402@gaisler.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 2014-08-20 14:05, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Andreas Larsson, > > On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:01:33 +0200, Andreas Larsson wrote: > >>> Do you know if there's any reason to still keep gcc 4.4 for those >>> processors? Wasn't the support for Sparc Leon merged in upstream gcc? >>> From https://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2011-12/msg00004.html, I see >>> that some patches were still needed for gcc 4.6, but according to >>> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/SPARC-Options.html, Sparc Leon >>> processors seem to be supported. >>> >>> According to https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html, the Sparc Leon >>> supported was merged in gcc 4.6: "GCC now supports the LEON series of >>> SPARC V8 processors. The code generated by the compiler can either be >>> tuned to it by means of the --with-tune=leon configure option and >>> -mtune=leon compilation option, or the compiler can be built for the >>> sparc-leon-{elf,linux} and sparc-leon3-{elf,linux} targets directly.". >>> >>> Could you update us on the Sparc Leon support, and maybe submit some >>> patches to Buildroot to make the relevant changes? >> >> >> Hi! >> >> I am looking into this and will submit some patches. > > Great, thanks! Also, currently, we don't have any Sparc toolchain in > our autobuilder testing. Normally, we try to have all architectures we > support tested in our autobuilders. If we were to add the Sparc > architecture to our testing infrastructure, would you be willing to > look at the potential build failures that may result from this testing? > (Look at http://autobuild.buildroot.org to see what the results look > like for other architectures). If that would be set up, it is something I could keep an eye on. However, I do not have the possibility to take responsibility for broken packages. Best regards, Andreas Larsson