[Buildroot] Sparc Leon support in Buildroot

[Andreas Larsson]

On 2014-08-20 14:05, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Andreas Larsson,
>
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:01:33 +0200, Andreas Larsson wrote:
>
>>> Do you know if there's any reason to still keep gcc 4.4 for those
>>> processors? Wasn't the support for Sparc Leon merged in upstream gcc?
>>>   From https://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2011-12/msg00004.html, I see
>>> that some patches were still needed for gcc 4.6, but according to
>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/SPARC-Options.html, Sparc Leon
>>> processors seem to be supported.
>>>
>>> According to https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html, the Sparc Leon
>>> supported was merged in gcc 4.6: "GCC now supports the LEON series of
>>> SPARC V8 processors. The code generated by the compiler can either be
>>> tuned to it by means of the --with-tune=leon configure option and
>>> -mtune=leon compilation option, or the compiler can be built for the
>>> sparc-leon-{elf,linux} and sparc-leon3-{elf,linux} targets directly.".
>>>
>>> Could you update us on the Sparc Leon support, and maybe submit some
>>> patches to Buildroot to make the relevant changes?
>>
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am looking into this and will submit some patches.
>
> Great, thanks! Also, currently, we don't have any Sparc toolchain in
> our autobuilder testing. Normally, we try to have all architectures we
> support tested in our autobuilders. If we were to add the Sparc
> architecture to our testing infrastructure, would you be willing to
> look at the potential build failures that may result from this testing?
> (Look at http://autobuild.buildroot.org to see what the results look
> like for other architectures).

If that would be set up, it is something I could keep an eye on. 
However, I do not have the possibility to take responsibility for broken 
packages.

Best regards,
Andreas Larsson