Re: linux-next: Tree for March 27

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:32:26PM +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:47:45 +0200
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > According to Jan's page, there's still a build error with the defconfig:
> >   http://l4x.org/k/?d=40450#err
> 
> Hmm...that must be a pretty ancient toolchain.

The oldest compiler the kernel currently supports is gcc 3.2, and 
whenever it's reasonably possible (noone expects you to backport avr32 
support to gcc 3.2) the aim is to support all compilers back to gcc 
3.2, or at least as far as possible.

> In any case, the patch
> below should fix it. The commit being reverted is not in mainline, so
> I'll probably just drop both of them next time I rebase.

Thanks.

> FWIW, a more recent toolchain is available here:
> 
> http://avr32linux.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/BinutilsPatches
> http://avr32linux.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GccPatches

Jan (who runs this page) Cc'ed.

> Haavard

cu
Adrian

BTW: What's the status of avr32 support in upstream binutils and gcc?

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