Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows of any current or future dependencies with the Linaro toolchain (2011.11) and the Linaro release of GDB and the Linux Kernel? Is it considered safe to use the toolchain with the upstream releases of GDB and the Kernel, assuming that the versions of each are suitably compatible? Or are there potential dependencies on work that has been done in the toolchain? For example, new instructions supported in the compiler/assembler, or enhancements to the kernel/runtime library on the Linaro branch that would depend on them being in sync.
Thanks, Dave.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Gibson, David David.Gibson@analog.com wrote:
Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone knows of any current or future dependencies with the Linaro toolchain (2011.11) and the Linaro release of GDB and the Linux Kernel?
Is it considered safe to use the toolchain with the upstream releases of GDB and the Kernel, assuming that the versions of each are suitably compatible?
Or are there potential dependencies on work that has been done in the toolchain? For example, new instructions supported in the compiler/assembler, or enhancements to the kernel/runtime library on the Linaro branch that would depend on them being in sync.
Hi Dave. We work upstream first and then backport so, yes, it is safe to intermix the Linaro and upstream versions of GCC, GDB, and the kernel. In general the different tools should detect if a feature is present or not and disable if needed.
-- Michael
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