Re: Kernel Cross Compiling [update]

[Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:28:19PM +0000, Richard Curnow wrote:
> * Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [2004-02-23]:
> > > is there a toolchain/binutils which 'know' and 'support'
> > > the '-isa=sh64' option? maybe it was depreciated?
> > > 
> > I don't know of one out in the wild. SuperH has their own toolchains that
> > support this, and is what I currently use. I'm not sure what the status of
> > their patches are in relation to getting merged into current gcc/binutils.
> > Richard (CC'ed) might know though, Richard?
> 
> The last public release we made of the SH-5 tools is available at
> 
>     ftp://ftp.uk.superh.com/pub/SuperH-GNU/Barcelona-20030414

how are they related to the 'mainline' toolchain?

i.e. is this something completely separate, or do
you follow the binutils/gcc updates from time to time?

what would be the binutils/gcc version which is
'closest' to 'your' toolchain? wouldn't it make
sense to get those changes back into the mainline?

> This URL provides further information:
> 
>     http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1984379&forum_id=9482
> 
> The SH-5 tools we're currently using in-house are a few months more
> advanced than those.  (They date from about August 2003.)  We'd be happy
> to package this version up and make it available if people express
> interest in this.

sure I'm interested *expressing interest*

thanks for the info,

TIA,
Herbert

> BTW, if anyone who's using the 2003_04_14 release has found any
> problems, please do let me know and I'll pass the information on to the
> toolchain guys.
> 
> -- 
> Richard \\\ SH-4/SH-5 Core & Debug Architect
> Curnow  \\\         SuperH (UK) Ltd, Bristol
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