[Buildroot] [PATCH] roseapplepi: backport upstream patches to fix build with gcc 6

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jun 20 20:19:06 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:04:49 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > What do you think?  
> 
> Yeah, it isn't really nice. I was also hessitating between sticking to
> gcc5 or add the patches, but as mainline support seems to be finally
> moving forward for this SoC (and we already carried patches for building
> with gcc 5.x), I went for the patches.

Regarding mainline support, I have no idea how far it is today. But
from experience, it takes a very long time to move from the
serial+MMC+Ethernet supported to a state where display+audio+GPU is
supported. So mainline may not necessarily be a drop-in replacement
before a long time.

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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