[Buildroot] [arc-buildroot] [PATCH v4 15/15] package/gcc: enable gcc 9.1 for ork1 (openrisc)

[Alexey Brodkin]

Hi Arnout, all,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2019 12:24 AM
> To: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at micronovasrl.com>; buildroot at buildroot.org; arc-
> buildroot at synopsys.com; Guo Ren <ren_guo at c-sky.com>
> Cc: Yann E . MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>; Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>; Romain
> Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>; Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire at nokia.com>
> Subject: Re: [arc-buildroot] [Buildroot] [PATCH v4 15/15] package/gcc: enable gcc 9.1 for ork1
> (openrisc)
> 
> 
> 
> On 20/06/2019 12:07, Giulio Benetti wrote:
> > openrisc support has been added with gcc 9.1.
> > Keep for now the old gcc 5 fork for ork1.
> 
>  So, when will we remove this?
> 
>  Same for ARC (GCC 8.x fork) and C-SKY (GCC 6.x fork): they are available in
> GCC9, do we need to keep those old forks?

ARC support in GCC 9.x & Binutils 2.32 is very solid so we may even try to use it by default for ARC.

As for arc-xxxx.yy forks I'd like to keep them for a couple of future BR releases
and if we see that vanilla GCC/Binutils work really good then forks may go avay.

Make sense?

-Alexey