On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 9:21 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko <de...@denix.org> wrote: > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-9-Dropping-Older-ARM > > Particularly, ARMv5 and ARMv5E are being dropped (but T and TE variants > remain) > > Are there any concerns from OE community perspective?
>From yocto project perspctive qemuarm which is emulating arm926ejs with default tune armv5te is used. so we are right at the trailing edge and wont be affected. However, I know there were OE users who had devices using other armv5 or v4 variants I have been suggesting to switch qemuarm to use armv7 based board emulator for few years now. may be this is the time to make that call for next YP release. > > At least for binutils we needed this patch even for armv5te: > http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/0007-Add-the-armv5e-architecture-to-binutils.patch > this patch technically required to support one of OEs available tune values. namely armv5e, we should be able to drop it. > Any other way this change will affect us? Thanks. > > -- > Denys > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
