Re: [PATCH v2 00/24] C6X: New architecture patch set

Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-25T17:36:57Z

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 13:34 -0400, Mark Salter wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 19:27 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 12:00 -0400, Mark Salter wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 16:53 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > It would be ever so nice to also point us to a binutils/gcc
> > > > source/patch
> > > > so that we can actually compile this muck.
> > >
> > > Sorry. I did so in the earlier patch series.
> > >
> > > http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/c6000/portal/release1882
> >
> > OK, so is all that properly merged in upstream binutils/gcc ?
>
> Mostly, I think. There is enough in place to make a toolchain to
> build kernels. We have seen some issues when using the latest
> devel head tools, but I'm not sure if that is the c6x bits or just
> the usual devel breakage. In any case, folks are working on it.

Goodness ;-)

The sad fact is that binutils/gcc releases simply don't build for most
linux kernel archs and non releases tend not to build much at all.
Nobody in those projects seems to think at least (cross) compiling all
supported targets is a release criteria or so.