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On 11/24/2011 05:59 PM, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 12:59 PM, Ken Werner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently reading the OpenEmbedded User Manual and wondering what's
>> the best way to add a layer for the Linaro toolchain components (Linaro
>> GCC, Linaro GDB). This is my first time with OE. I just setup the
>> environment and started to build an image that targets qemuarm (bitbake
>> is still building). Any suggestions or general help is much appreciated.
>
> Can you comment on what you expect to get out of the Linaro toolchain layer?

There are two goals. One is to use OE-core as a testsuite for a 
pre-built binary gcc-linaro. The other is to provide a meta layer that 
always has the latest released gcc-linaro and, in the future, also gdb, 
qemu etc..

Regards
Ken