From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:43:27 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Report from the Buildroot Developer Day, 29th October 2010 In-Reply-To: <201011232302.19225.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:02:19 +0100") References: <20101123221417.0d6867c6@surf> <201011232302.19225.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> Message-ID: <871v6a7s74.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN writes: Hi, >> This is a personal report from Thomas Petazzoni. It hasn't been >> reviewed by the other participants, so they are kindly invited to >> share their thoughts and corrections. Yann> Thank you Thomas, it's all good from my PoV. Here as well. Yann> So there are to possibilities: Yann> 1) add those options to crosstool-NG Yann> 2) have dedicated code in Buildroot to munge crosstool-NG's uClibc's .config Yann> (yes, the .config for uClibc used by crosstool-NG) 2 is fine by me (we do the same thing for the internal toolchain). Perhaps we could even reuse the config handling in toolchain/uClibc/uclibc.mk ? >> Peter's goal is to gradually replace the Buildroot internal process to >> build toolchains by Crosstool-NG. He currently imagines a one-year >> timeframe before phasing out the Buildroot internal process. Yann> I believe this is a little bit optimistic. What I would say is that in Yann> a year time, we can switch the _default_ to being to use crosstool-NG, Yann> but still have the internal mechanism as a backup. Then, I think that Yann> another 6 months will be needed before we can decide to get rid of the Yann> internal mechanism altogether. True. Yann> Do not forget that for now, crosstool-NG does not support the same set Yann> of architectures Buildroot does. Also, Buildroot has per-arch patchsets Yann> which is (for now at least) a no-no in crosstool-NG. Do you refer to the avr32 stuff or something else? >> The next Buildroot Developer Day will happen on Monday, 7th February >> 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. This is just after the FOSDEM conference >> (http://www.fosdem.org). Interested participants are invited to >> contact Peter Korsgaard and Thomas Petazzoni. Yann> Hehe. FOSDEM `11 is coming fast... I'll sure be there! Great! -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard