<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Renato Golin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:renato.golin@linaro.org" target="_blank">renato.golin@linaro.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On 13 December 2013 09:47, Vinicius Tinti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:viniciustinti@gmail.com" target="_blank">viniciustinti@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">The Android Linaro toolchain can be used as an alternative to 'android'<br>
toolchain. Althourgh it may be necessary to add the<br>
'android-linaro-kernel.patch' patch to make the target kernel build.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>NICE!</div><div><br></div><div>This is really good because the problems the Android team was seeing when compiling with our newest toolchain were the same they were seeing with Clang.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'd really like if AOSP developers would start using the Linaro GCC, so that we could provide the toolchain solution for all platforms (currently ARM and x86 Linux only), and all the kernel and system compilation problems we're having would be a lot easier to convince them to fix.</div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>I think Cyanogenmod people will be much more happy to use Linaro rather than Google. I don't know if they are still this way but from last Android Builders Summit people claimed that Google accept very few patches.</div>
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<div></div><div>Do you know if this patch is being pushed upstream? Would be great if we could just compile without patches...</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think so. I found it at <a href="https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_samsung_tuna/commit/ec1ac589d49081286164246fbaaba0012ae7ecac">https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_samsung_tuna/commit/ec1ac589d49081286164246fbaaba0012ae7ecac</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Yes it is not that cool to add a patch to make it a compatible toolchain. We should check with Linaro guys why this is needed or what we are doing wrong. Can you check it Renato?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>cheers,</div><div>--renato</div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br>Regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Tinti<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication<br></div>
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