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From: Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: crossgcc@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng] bc9ed3: Adds Raspberry Pi 3 sample config
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 02:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F77689F4-8537-4BDA-8F52-23FCC887BD13@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160310222005.7bf64c63@free-electrons.com>

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> On Mar 10, 2016, at 1:20 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:11:45 -0800, Bryan Hundven wrote:
> 
>>  Changed paths:
>>    A samples/armv8-rpi3-linux-gnueabihf/crosstool.config
>>    A samples/armv8-rpi3-linux-gnueabihf/reported.by
> 
> I think it is not a good idea to have a configuration named after a
> board, as the discussion generated around this addition shows.
> 
> Indeed, an ARMv8 processor can run both in 32 bits mode or 64 bits mode
> depending on the use cases. So a single board like the RPi3 can
> require the use of either an ARM toolchain, or an AArch64 toolchain.
> 
> So, I think you should stick to configurations for processor cores, not
> boards. So:
> 
> 	arm-cortex-a15
> 	arm-cortex-a7
> 	aarch64-cortex-a53
> 	aarch64-cortex-a72
> 	...
> 
> Then, a RPi3 user can chose either an arm-* toolchain or an aarch64-*
> toolchain depending on what he wants to do.

I can agree with that. I’ll look into renaming the samples soon!

Cheers,

-Bryan

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-11  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-02 20:11 Bryan Hundven
2016-03-02 23:51 ` Mike Ray
2016-03-03  0:23   ` Bryan Hundven
2016-03-03  0:28     ` Stefan Hallas Mulvad
2016-03-03  6:23       ` Mike Ray
2016-03-03 12:45         ` Bryan Hundven
2016-03-03 15:19           ` Bryan Hundven
2016-03-03 15:52             ` Mike Ray
2016-03-03 15:58               ` Bryan Hundven
2016-03-03  0:25   ` Stefan Hallas Mulvad
2016-03-10 21:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-11  2:06   ` Bryan Hundven [this message]

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