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Re: Primary targets for the release


On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 12:04 -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 02:53 -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
> > > > I'd missed out arm-linux-gnueabi in my original post. Since that is the
> > > > recommended linux platform port for ARM , it would be good to keep it as
> > > > well in the primary platforms list.
> > >
> > > Well, yes.  Ok, skip arm-eabi and perhaps also skip
> > > arm-*-linux-gnu in favor of arm-*-linux-gnueabi.
> > No, arm-eabi should definitely be preferred over arm-elf.
> 
> "No" to what?  IMHO arm-*-linux-gnueabi is preferable, if
> there's a cap on the number of primary ARM platforms, yes?
> Sure, either preferred to arm-elf.
> 
> brgds, H-P
> 

I read your post as implying that arm-eabi was less important than
arm-elf.   That is certainly not the case, in fact the opposite is true.

I'm not sure there is a simple answer as to which of arm-eabi and
arm-*-linux-gnueabi is most important.  If either is in any way broken,
then IMO the release is broken.

R.




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