Re: Linaro and ARMv5

2010-08-30 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > Well, I have several v5 boards I could use for testing. Bootstrap code > and U-Boot issues are sorted out already and I could concentrate on > Linaro's toolchain and rootfs components initially. I can also allocate > a 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 machine t

Re: Linaro and ARMv5

2010-08-30 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
On 10-08-26 06:01 PM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:03:25AM +1200, Michael Hope wrote: >>> I'm looking for some advice on the feasibility of using Linaro on one of >>> my projects based on an AT91SAM9260 Atmel processor, which has an >>> ARM926EJ-S ARMv5 processor core

Re: Linaro and ARMv5

2010-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 07:01:50PM -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > Note that Debian does maintain a v5 build at the moment; if they > transition to using the Linaro toolchain for their armel build then it > may be the best possible scenario for v5 validation. I'm copying > Matthias who may

Re: Linaro and ARMv5

2010-08-26 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:03:25AM +1200, Michael Hope wrote: > > I'm looking for some advice on the feasibility of using Linaro on one of > > my projects based on an AT91SAM9260 Atmel processor, which has an > > ARM926EJ-S ARMv5 processor core. > > > > I see that the Linaro builds do not support v

Re: Linaro and ARMv5

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Hope
Hi Pedro. From a compiler point of view we take the 'do no harm' approach. The compiler is intended for the Cortex-A series and all new work is focused on that area, but the ARMv5 support should be no worse than the upstream version. Give the toolchain a try as the bug fixes and performance impr

Linaro and ARMv5

2010-08-24 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I'm looking for some advice on the feasibility of using Linaro on one of my projects based on an AT91SAM9260 Atmel processor, which has an ARM926EJ-S ARMv5 processor core. I see that the Linaro builds do not support v5 and I wonder, what would be involved in "recompiling" Linaro with v5