On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Sandra Loosemore
<sandra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/26/2018 07:30 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>>
>> Another interesting question is the status of your toolchain support. I
>> see your
>> github account contains binutils and gcc repositories, but they are not
>> upstream
>> yet. Are you working on getting those included in the respective upstream
>> projects already?
>
>
> We at Mentor Graphics are working on preparing the abiv2 binutils and gcc
> support for upstream submission. The existing gcc back end for abiv1 is
> actually completely separate from the abiv2 back end and probably eventually
> needs to be merged with it, but first things first.
Ok, very good. Being able to build abiv2 is probably sufficient for testing
the kernel in a meaningful way, and if you are working on getting that
upstream, I trust that it will happen quick enough. I can always provide
toolchain binaries on kernel.org based a prerelease version like I did
for openrisc, which makes it accessible to other kernel developers doing
cross-arch changes.
Arnd
