Hi, On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:47:18 +0530 Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> wrote:
> Our avr-toolchain is very old and outdated. Our version is 5.5.0, > whereas the latest seems to be 10.2.0. We also have multiple versions of > the avr-toolchain packages along with functions to produce those > multiple versions. Can we remove these functions and different versions, > and keep only one latest version of the avr-toolchain? As one of the people using avr-toolchain, +1 > I have an old patchset[1] to this effect, but I didn't want to proceed > without a discussion. I was concerned that there might be a use, for all > these different versions, that I did not comprehend. I don't think so. The AVRs are so tiny and development using them is usually done by copying library source code into your project, so I cannot see any reason to care about different gcc versions for AVR. avrdude is another matter--it's very easy to break that if you don't actually test it.
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