Re: Plan for changing the binary toolchain to 4.7 and hardfloat

2012-03-19 Thread Michael Hope
On 20 March 2012 01:42, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > I think the "correct" solution to this would be to have the binary toolchain > built in a multilib configuration that supports both softfp and hardfp, and > provide aliases for both triplets that configure the right setting, but that > requires more b

Re: Plan for changing the binary toolchain to 4.7 and hardfloat

2012-03-19 Thread Michael Hope
On 19 March 2012 21:48, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:27:17 + > Mans Rullgard wrote: >> FWIW, Gentoo has been using arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi for hardfloat >> configurations ever since gcc started supporting it.  That's of course >> not a triplet, strictly speaking

Re: Plan for changing the binary toolchain to 4.7 and hardfloat

2012-03-19 Thread Andrew Stubbs
On 19/03/12 08:48, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:27:17 + Mans Rullgard wrote: FWIW, Gentoo has been using arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi for hardfloat configurations ever since gcc started supporting it. That's of course not a triplet, strictly speaking. Also fwiw, I

Re: Plan for changing the binary toolchain to 4.7 and hardfloat

2012-03-19 Thread David Rusling
Michael, me too.Can you talk to Steve McKintyre and Konstantinos about this? We've spent the last 12 months trying to get alignment / agreement across all of the distributions on this.arm-linux-gnueabihf is the least worst, agreed option. Dave On 19 Mar 2012, at 08:48, Konsta

Re: Plan for changing the binary toolchain to 4.7 and hardfloat

2012-03-19 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:27:17 + Mans Rullgard wrote: > FWIW, Gentoo has been using arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi for hardfloat > configurations ever since gcc started supporting it. That's of course > not a triplet, strictly speaking. Also fwiw, I have been assured from Gentoo developers that t

Re: Plan for changing the binary toolchain to 4.7 and hardfloat

2012-03-18 Thread Mans Rullgard
On 18 March 2012 19:23, Michael Hope wrote: > On 17 March 2012 08:10, Loïc Minier wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012, Michael Hope wrote: >>>  https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/BinariesMigration >> >>  Is there a separate plan for gcc-4.5 deprecation in source releases? > > Yip, I'll send a

Re: Plan for changing the binary toolchain to 4.7 and hardfloat

2012-03-18 Thread Michael Hope
On 17 March 2012 08:10, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012, Michael Hope wrote: >>  https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/BinariesMigration > >  Is there a separate plan for gcc-4.5 deprecation in source releases? Yip, I'll send an email on that today. >  The triplet situation is sa

Re: Plan for changing the binary toolchain to 4.7 and hardfloat

2012-03-16 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012, Michael Hope wrote: > https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/BinariesMigration Is there a separate plan for gcc-4.5 deprecation in source releases? The triplet situation is sad; is there any hope that we fix this upstream? -- Loïc Minier

Plan for changing the binary toolchain to 4.7 and hardfloat

2012-03-15 Thread Michael Hope
Hi there. Over the next three months both GCC 4.7 and Ubuntu 12.04 'Precise' are coming out. We'll switch over to these pretty quickly which will affect our internal testing and anyone using the binary toolchain. The changeover plan including dates, details of what's happening, and backwards com