[U-Boot-Users] FW: FW: [PATCH][ARM] Rationalize ARM compiler options

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Peter,

in message <000601c872d5$c3c00140$9a4d010a@Emea.Arm.com> you wrote:
>  
> My postion remains that U-Boot is supplied to build with the 
> latest ELDK toolchain.
> Supporting all possible toolchains (and all possible builds 
> of those toolchains) is too much effort. 

I disagree here.

We should really try (as we have benn doing all the time  before)  to
make U-Boot build with as many toolchains as possible with reasonable
effort. Of course, each of us can test only a few, and it's perfectly
fine  when  you  as custodian decide to test with a specific a set of
tools only.

But we are definitely open for requests to support othe  rtol  chains
as well - even if we cannot actively help to develop such support.

> If they have sufficient knowledge to care I dont see this 
> being much extra effort for them.....
>  
> And if they want to encourage others to do the same they can 
> document it in doc/README.ARM.config.mk.

We should also accept patches to make U-Boot build with other tool
chains - assuming it doesn't break any of the existing code.

Regarding the soft-float issue: I still think this should work with
any tool chain version, assuming it was configured correctly.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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