[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/8] Patch and remove Nios2 binutils bug 27597

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 19:45:28 +0100
Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com> wrote:

> This patchset add backported patches for Buildroot Nios2 binutils bug 27597 and
> drop packages dependency on it. Doing this the external toolchain will fail
> building those packages, so I'm not that sure how to deal with this situation.
> The same happened for OpenRisc and as far as I remember the first patch of the
> series has been applied, then Bootlin toolchains have been patched and rebuilt/
> redeployed, in the end the remaining patches have been applied. But here we also
> have Sourcery CodeBench Nios-II 2018.05 toolchain that contain the bug, so I
> don't know how to deal with this situation to avoid build failures.

First of all, thanks for following up on this, I'm really happy to see
that we are not always *adding* more GCC/binutils bug options, but
sometimes *removing* some of them.

Regarding the CodeBench NIOSII toolchain from 2018.05, I think we could
simply delete it. It makes sense to support old toolchains to some
extent, but NIOSII is a very confidential architecture, and almost 6
years old toolchain is really ancient. So I would be entirely fine with
dropping this toolchain.

Best regards,

Thomas
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