Re: maintainer update: add support for more AVR microcontrollers

["Björn Haase" <bjoern.m.haase@web.de>]

From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, To: Eric Christopher 
<echristo@apple.com>, 
Cc: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>, binutils@sourceware.org, Date: Thu, 
20 Apr 2006 23:01:23 +0200, Subject: 
References: 
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<F610553E-74F0-44C0-AA67-94EC0BD0DD70@apple.com>, Reply-to: Joerg Wunsch 
<joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>

I completely agree with Joerg. IMO there is *NO* present user of the gnu 
toolchain for AVR that is not aware of the fact that the best place to find 
recent documentation is the avr-libc project. I'd like to estimate that 95% 
of the users even would not know how to access the information on the 
binutils info pages :-).

Without Joerg's changes the binutils port was extremely outdated. The only 
reason why this did not cause difficulties is, that almost every user has 
been working with pre-compiled binaries that were generated with the patches 
that were distributed and maintained by the maintainers of the avr-libc 
projects (thank's to Joerg Wunsch and Eric Weddington IIRC :-) ).

So the private binutils version of Joerg generally has a more official status 
than the cvs version :-).

Yours,

Bjoern.