[Milkymist-devel] LatticeMico32 support in GCC 4.5

[Joel Sherrill]

FWIW we have been using the lm32 patches against
4.3 and 4.4 and providing them with the RTEMS
tool RPMs.  We would also appreciate these
getting reviewed and merged. 

Thanks.

--joel

sebastien.bourdeauducq at lekernel.net wrote:
> Hi,
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> Would you mind including support for the LatticeMico32 soft processor in
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> the upcoming GCC 4.5 series?
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> We at Milkymist [1] develop a free system-on-chip design [2] that uses the
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> Mico32 processor and having out-of-the box Mico32 support in GCC would help
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> software development on this free SoC platform.
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> Support for Mico32 is already included in recent binutils releases.
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> A patch [3] was submitted to the GCC mailing list last December, that we
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> are currently using with GCC 4.4. It seems pretty stable as it allows us to
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> compile a working Linux kernel [4].
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> Looking forward to your positive answer,
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> Sébastien Bourdeauducq
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> [1] http://www.milkymist.org
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> [2] http://www.milkymist.org/doc/paper_overview.pdf
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> [3] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-12/msg01024/lm32.patch
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> [4] http://lekernel.net/blog/?p=540
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