2.22.1 Possible -> Yes!

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 04/26/2012 07:26 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 04/26/2012 07:18 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> On 04/26/2012 11:02 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> On 04/26/2012 03:29 PM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>>>
>>>> If anyone has patches to backport, please speak up.
>>> These are the 2 patches, I would like to see applied for RTEMS, Joel
>>> mentioned before.
>>>
>>> Both are raw backports from trunk.
>>>
>>> *-1.diff is the coldfire patch.
>>>
>>> *-2.diff addresses build-issues.
>>> Without it, binutils-2.22 fails to build for me on mingw-w64 hosts.
>> And PR13991 which I assume isn't in your build set yet because
>> it is new. :)
> Correct. I actually haven't looked into this patch, yet.
>
> Unless somebody else is faster and if my time permits, I'll try to
> cutting a patch, tomorrow and submit it here, if it has seen at least
> some preliminary testing.

Well, the size and intrusiveness of the resulting patch lets me hesitate 
from applying it and to at least stop for now.

Combined with what others said in this thread, I am leaning more to 
switching the powerpc-rtems binutils to binutils-trunk than to backport 
this patch.

Ralf