OpenRISC eCos status

[Jonathan Larmour]

Scott Furman wrote:
> Robert Cragie wrote:
> 
>> It would be very useful to get the sources.redhat.com version up to date.
>> There seem to be some minor outstanding issues to be resolved - would 
>> it be
>> possible to sort these out? If this can't be done soon, I will assume 
>> that
>> the most suitable starting point is therefore the OpenCores version, i.e.
>> there are no issues with that particular snapshot from an eCos point of
>> view - am I right?
>>  
>>
> Note that the OpenCores version of eCos has some patches created by 
> phoenix to "disable some stuff that caused problems with gcc-3.1".  I'm 
> not sure why such patches are necessary - I build eCos with gcc 3.1, but 
> perhaps my configuration is different from what phoenix is building.

GCC 3.1 had some bugs tickled by eCos. These weren't fix till GCC 3.2.1.

> I think the result should end up rather close to what will be in the 
> Redhat repository eventually.

<fx: tiptoes away with guilt>

Jifl
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