Griffis, Brad wrote: > Hi all, > > Maybe someone from Montavista or anyone else with experience using Montavista > tools can help answer my question. > btw, this has come up before:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-08/msg00041.html > A customer recently discovered "the hard way" that once your one year support > contract with Montavista expires that your compiler ceases to function. The > customer's product is more or less complete, but it could be in production > for a lengthy amount of time (10 years). During that time it's likely that a > few bug reports will come in and they will need to rebuild some things. > Normally a customer would expect to fix the bug and make a firmware update, > but that's not possible since their compiler is crippled! So what is > recommended in this situation? > > In general I think Montavista provides a great service to customers and to > the community. I highly recommend Montavista to customers, particularly > those customers who are not Linux gurus. This compiler issue is a bit sticky > though and I hope there is some kind of clean solution where both Montavista > and our customers can be happy. > > Thanks, > Brad > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Brad Griffis > Technical Staff - DSP Applications > Texas Instruments > Schaumburg, IL > Office: 847-517-4699 > Fax: 847-517-4576 > > _______________________________________________ > Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list > Davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com > http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source > > _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list Davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
