On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Will <william.swashbuck...@gmail.com> wrote: > James Lemke <jwlemke <at> codesourcery.com> writes: > >> I have completed the binutils submission for VLE. >> I am working on the gcc submission. The test results are looking good >> now. Patches will be posted very soon. > > Do you have any update on the work on VLE-support? > > Thanks for any feedback you can provide!
The problem is the changes are very invasive and significantly complicate the common parts of the rs6000 port. A lot of people may use applications built for PPC VLE on embedded systems using Freescale parts, but there are few developers who need to build and use the compiler. Most, if not all, of those developers will receive a pre-built SDK. I am happy to work with Jim to merge some of the VLE patches into GCC to reduce divergence and simplify maintenance, but merging in all support is too disruptive to the general powerpc port. I have not heard a lot of advantage or need for most developers to be able to build GCC for PPC VLE from the FSF sources, other than a few, vocal users. Merging in some of the less disruptive pieces and obtaining patches or an SDK from Freescale does not seem overly burdensome for the few people who need that support. Thanks, David
