arc-2016.09 is the most recent toolchain for ARC cores and
it is based on top of upstream Binutils 2.27 and GCC 6.2.1.
With updated major version of GCC we copied all GCC 6.x patches
for ARC as well as Bintils 2.27 patches.
Note that toochain sports ARCv4 ABI and so must be used
with 4.8+ Linux kernels. Even though it will build v4.4 kernel
perfectly fine on attempt to run user-space apps they won't
work with older kernel. That said previuosly sent RFC patches with
Linux kernel update are required:
[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/726686/
[2] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/726687/
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
ARC port of GDB is not yet upstream so we need to use
sources from Synopsys GitHub repo.
Given Synopys' commitment to upstream ARC support in GDB
in the nearest future it might be simpler to add a separate
package for ARC GDB instead of patching generic GDB package.
This way once ARC GDB stuff gets uptreamed we'll only need
to remove that new "gdb-arc" package.
Note 1 very minor change in generic gdb package was done -
it now depends on !arc (while "gdb-arc" depends on "arc").
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Alexey Brodkin
Felix Fietkau