Hi, is the Linaro toolchain (esp. gcc) useful on x86/x86_64, or is an attempt to use the Linaro toolchain with such a target just asking for trouble? (No, I'm not secretly an Intel spy ;) Just trying to have some fun with my desktop machine ;) )
ttyl bero
On 17 August 2011 12:09, Bernhard Rosenkranzer bernhard.rosenkranzer@linaro.org wrote:
Hi, is the Linaro toolchain (esp. gcc) useful on x86/x86_64, or is an attempt to use the Linaro toolchain with such a target just asking for trouble? (No, I'm not secretly an Intel spy ;) Just trying to have some fun with my desktop machine ;) )
I believe the idea is that while we don't work to improve x86(_64) we shouldn't break it.
Dave
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 04:09:21AM -0700, Bernhard Rosenkranzer wrote:
is the Linaro toolchain (esp. gcc) useful on x86/x86_64, or is an attempt to use the Linaro toolchain with such a target just asking for trouble?
Isn't this exactly what Ubuntu do for all their releases (from when we started producing a gcc-linaro)?
We use the Linaro x86 toolchain to cross-compile full system images for our embedded target, which work great. I apply a subset of the Ubuntu patchset to Linaro gcc and gdb as well as upstream eglibc and binutils. (I omit the multilib patches and some other things that didn't seem necessary for the target.) You can find this at https://github.com/mkedwards/crosstool-ng .
On 17/08/11 12:38, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 04:09:21AM -0700, Bernhard Rosenkranzer wrote:
is the Linaro toolchain (esp. gcc) useful on x86/x86_64, or is an attempt to use the Linaro toolchain with such a target just asking for trouble?
Isn't this exactly what Ubuntu do for all their releases (from when we started producing a gcc-linaro)?
I believe Linaro GCC is used as the basis for the Ubuntu system compiler on x86, amd64, armel, and ppc.
However, they do apply some additional patches, so we can't make any promises that the results will be the same. That said, most of their patches are customization and hardening, and they do report any bugs they find to us, so the extra patches shouldn't be that important.
Andrew
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Bernhard Rosenkranzer bernhard.rosenkranzer@linaro.org wrote:
Hi, is the Linaro toolchain (esp. gcc) useful on x86/x86_64, or is an attempt to use the Linaro toolchain with such a target just asking for trouble? (No, I'm not secretly an Intel spy ;) Just trying to have some fun with my desktop machine ;) )
Hi Bernhard. We support ARM, i686, and x86_64. This means that the x86 targets are as correct as the FSF version, that we'll triage any bugs, and fix any Linaro-only issues.
See: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Flyer
for more.
-- Michael
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