Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add GCC cross compiler for arm-none-eabi.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Ricardo Wurmus  skribis:

> here's a patch series I've been sitting on for about a year.  It's a compiler
> for bare-metal binaries targetting arm-none-eabi.  I'm using this successfully
> to compile ChibiOS for the Axoloti Core board.

Awesome, congrats!

> I've chosen to package the particular compiler version that is used for the
> Axoloti Core, so this is equivalent to what the GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain
> project provides with the "4.9-2015-q2-update" release (see
> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/209776344/release.txt).  I used SVN revisions
> because certain ARM patches are not part of the standard release tarball; they
> are only in SVN.
>
> I did update newlib to the very latest release, however, because it seems to
> work just fine.
>
> I don't know if it's okay to keep older versions of the cross compiler.  For
> version 4.9 the GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain project made another release
> "4.9-2015-q3-update".  It's probably better to at least use the upstream
> versions they used for that release instead of basing things on
> "4.9-2015-q2-update".

OK.  Too bad the released versions lack these bits.

> I have no idea if we can build our own version of 4.9 from a later revision,
> because I don't know exactly what patches I'd need to backport.  If somebody
> knows better I'd appreciate hints.

I don’t know, but I think it’s important to provide release tarballs
rather than intermediate revisions (except of course in the case of this
Axoloti cross-compiler).

Thanks!

Ludo’.

[PATCH 0/3] Add GCC cross compiler for arm-none-eabi.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Guix,

here's a patch series I've been sitting on for about a year.  It's a compiler
for bare-metal binaries targetting arm-none-eabi.  I'm using this successfully
to compile ChibiOS for the Axoloti Core board.

I've chosen to package the particular compiler version that is used for the
Axoloti Core, so this is equivalent to what the GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain
project provides with the "4.9-2015-q2-update" release (see
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/209776344/release.txt).  I used SVN revisions
because certain ARM patches are not part of the standard release tarball; they
are only in SVN.

I did update newlib to the very latest release, however, because it seems to
work just fine.

I don't know if it's okay to keep older versions of the cross compiler.  For
version 4.9 the GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain project made another release
"4.9-2015-q3-update".  It's probably better to at least use the upstream
versions they used for that release instead of basing things on
"4.9-2015-q2-update".

I have no idea if we can build our own version of 4.9 from a later revision,
because I don't know exactly what patches I'd need to backport.  If somebody
knows better I'd appreciate hints.

~~ Ricardo


Ricardo Wurmus (3):
  gnu: Add arm-none-eabi cross compiler.
  gnu: Add newlib-arm-none-eabi.
  gnu: Add newlib-nano-arm-none-eabi.

 gnu/local.mk   |   1 +
 gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm |   1 +
 gnu/packages/embedded.scm  | 185 +
 3 files changed, 187 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 gnu/packages/embedded.scm

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