Hi Luigi, There were no particular reasons preventing external toolchain support from hitting trunk apart from a constant lack of time on my side...
I'll try my best to have it commited by the end of the week. Thanks for your help and support ! Regards, -- Nico Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini wrote: > Hi List, > Hi Nico, > > find the attached my contribute. > Starting from nico's patch I build this patchset that adds the ability to use > use an external toolchain (rebased on r17459). > > I compiled a simple ppc440 target with and without the external toolchain > usage and it seems to work fine. As external toolchain I used the > CodeSourcery > G++lite 4.3-50 for Power EABI > (http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/power/portal/release603). > > Find also the config.external and config.normal configs to look my board > setup. > > My wish is to see this patch in the main-line as soon possible because is > very > important for my job. > > Any feedback is welcome. > > best regards, > > luigi > > > > Il domenica 6 settembre 2009 20:26:46 Luigi Mantellini ha scritto: > >> Hi List, >> >> as in the past I will ask again opinions regarding the optional >> support for external cross-toolchain. >> >> Reading the dev.openwrt.org I see: >> >> "OpenWrt is currently being used in industrial control systems, small >> robots, sensor networks, home control solutions, VoIP systems, both >> wired and wireless networks and a whole lot more." >> >> I'm working on network devices and usually I receive from my vendors >> the BSP and toolchain that is considered "official" and "safe" for the >> BSP. My suppliers usually don't accent to support BSP (and anwser to >> my questions) if I don't use the provided toolchain. >> >> From these considerations, My opinion is that external target-specific >> toolchian should be supported by OpenWRT avoiding to compile everytime >> the toolchain. >> >> In past Nico sent a set of patch for support this feature but I think >> that are not included yet in the mainline. >> >> Nico, can you provide me your last patches? and explain if them will >> be included or not? >> >> thanks in advance and best regards, >> >> luigi >> >> > > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
