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,