[ECOS] Toolchain updates and flashv2 merge

[Martin Davey]

Ps... sorry for the previous messages text formatting...dont know what 
happened there..




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Larmour" <jifl@eCosCentric.com>
To: "eCos discussion" <ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:05 PM
Subject: [ECOS] Toolchain updates and flashv2 merge


> New prebuilt toolchains are available for testing with eCos, in 
> preparation
> for eCos v3.0.
>
> They can be obtained from ftp://ecos.sourceware.org/pub/ecos/gnutools but
> hopefully by now they will have started appearing on mirror sites that 
> will
> be more local and so download faster for you:
> http://ecos.sourceware.org/mirror.html
> http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html
>
> The toolchains to download are the ones with "20081107" in their name.
>
> These are based on GCC 4.3.2, a binutils snapshot of 2008-06-19 and a gdb
> snapshot of 2008-07-06. But many patches needed to be made (which is also
> why I'm not upgrading to the newly released binutils 2.19 as we've been
> testing with this source base and don't want to rock the boat more). The
> patches are also on the FTP site.
>
> ARM users will note that they will need to manually change the CDL
> configuration variable CYGBLD_GLOBAL_COMMAND_PREFIX from arm-elf to
> arm-eabi. This will be resolved across all ARM targets before the eCos 3.0
> release, so no need for patches thanks. In the first instance please 
> report
> any problems you think are caused by using these tools to me (CC'ing
> ecos-discuss, but make sure I'm included directly). We don't want the
> release process to drag out now that we have an opportunity in our 
> schedule
> for doing it, so please bang on these so we can move to a final release.
>
> Of course I can't guarantee any problems will necessarily be things we can
> fix, rather than report upstream. But (after my toolchain patches),
> eCosCentric have been using these tools successfully, so if there are any
> problems, then that probably just means I need to pull over some more
> patches from eCosCentric's tree. So don't spend too much time 
> investigating
> as the problem may already be solved!
>
>
> I'm working on the merge of the flashv2 branch to the trunk (sort of - in
> fact I expect to mostly use eCosCentric's existing merge). Expect things
> temporarily not to work in anoncvs shortly :-). As part of this, as well 
> as
> merging io/flash and redboot's flash support and some of the drivers,
> eCosCentric will also be contributing an improved Strataflash driver.
>
> Jifl
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