Restricting architectures

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel at pengutronix.de> writes:

Hi,

 Robert> Wearing my embedded linux developer hat, I really like your
 Robert> idea. We use Debian all over the place, and if it contains
 Robert> solid cross toolchains for the ARM/PowerPC/SH/Blackfin/x86
 Robert> targets we are working with I'm really happy with the idea that
 Robert> we wouldn't have to work on toolchains any more. It is a pain
 Robert> every time you have to do it, it sucks up a lot of time and the
 Robert> result is almost never something which can impress your
 Robert> customers.

My feelings are basically the same for Buildroot.

 Robert> However, we (mainly the group at Pengutronix that develops
 Robert> ptxdist) still work on OSELAS.Toolchain simply because the
 Robert> customers we work with do not all use Debian or Ubuntu but also
 Robert> SuSE and RedHat/Fedora. So in order to provide stable and
 Robert> reproducable board support packages, having toolchains that are
 Robert> independend of the distribution are quite important.

Indeed. An alternative to distribution-specific toolchain work is
collaborating with crosstool-NG, which is something we've been working
on for some time. Long term I want to remove the internal toolchain
stuff from BR.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard