[Linaro-dev] Availability of hardware for Linaro development?

[Mark Mitchell]

Bill Traynor wrote:

> Would it not make more sense to simply standardize on a readily 
> available toolchain such as CodeSourcery's Lite ARM toolchain?

Excellent suggestion! :-)

CodeSourcery is engaged with Linaro; some CodeSourcery folks are part of
the Linaro Toolchain Working Group, and more will be starting in July.
That working group will be doing various (yet to be decided) things to
improve the toolchains (and oprofile and various other tools), in terms
of quality, performance, and features.

The current tentative plan is that we'll start with CodeSourcery's
latest Lite Edition release as a starting point for a 4.4-based
toolchain.  There will almost certainly also be a 4.5-based toolchain
(with patches from our 4.4-based toolchain that didn't make FSF 4.5, but
also with new functionality developed by Linaro, and with backports of
things going into 4.6 that are relevant, whether those originate from
CodeSourcery, ARM, or elsewhere).

We'll continue to do Sourcery G++ Lite Edition releases as well, and, of
course, those will be tracking improvements from Linaro.  Just as
CodeSourcery's improvements have always flowed to the FSF tree, we'll
now be pushing changes to Linaro as well, and just as we've always
merged from the FSF, will now also be merging from Linaro.

Thanks,

-- 
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery
mark at codesourcery.com
(650) 331-3385 x713