Hi Dan,
in message e7af2eca2d0ca4432255ff965eb51330@embeddededge.com you wrote:
I'd like to discuss how we can make the MIPS build environment a little bit easier to use. For example, the cpu/mips/config.mk assumes big endian, and although I'll be the first to stand up
It was pure chance that the first two MIPS system to which we ported U-Boot (INCA-IP and Purple) happened to be big endian. We, too, have LE MIPS systems in the queue.
to assist with the alternative :-) I'd like it if we can just find a way to invoke 'mipseb-*' or 'mipsel-*' based upon the configuration chosen and let it go at that.
Please feel free to go on :-)
I'd also like us to agree to use up to date tools.
Yes, but please not not break backward compatibility.
Again, the config.mk with the test and hard coded flags depending upon tools seems unnecessary since the newer tools have been around for a while and proven to work.
It's true that newer tools are available and working fine, but that doesn't mean that we can brak support for the old toolchains. There are many projects running in Big Companies wheare introducing a new toolchain is sinply not possible with reasonable efforts.
Unless I'm doing something wrong, I also have to use binutils with the 'allow_branch_to_undefined' patch.
Yes, this is correct, at least with the current code. Please feel free to improve that.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk