On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:37 PM Joel Sherrill <j...@rtems.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:53 PM Moritz Strübe <moritz.stru...@redheads.de> > wrote: > > > > > Am 22.04.2020 um 18:38 schrieb Jeff Law via Gcc: > > > [..] as the > > > alternative would be dropping the AVR port. > > > > Shouldn't that work be sponsored by Microchip (or whoever currently owns > > AVR)? Arduino Inc. might also be highly interested in continued > > AVR-support. > > > > One would like to think that. They haven't released an updated GNU > toolchain > since 2016 per this website: > > https://www.microchip.com/mplab/avr-support/avr-and-arm-toolchains-c-compilers > > > Has there been a company sponsored community visible maintainer since > Eric Weddington left the company in the 2013 time frame? > Well, if write-after-approval access for the avr backend counts, I work for Microchip (Atmel, before it got acquired), and I have proposed and committed a bunch of patches since 2013 :)
Regards Senthil
