Re: [Mspgcc-users] mspgcc Red Hat release

[Brendan C. <bl...@re...>]

On 07/05/2013 11:24 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> Kudos to Peter Bigot for maintaining MSP430 toolchain for so long and
> for getting it to the level of support that it has today. Kudos also
> to RedHat people like Brendan Conoboy for committing to  ongoing
> support.
>
> Having said that, could I suggest some public or private coordination
> between the two teams?  Peter has extensive knowledge of this
> toolchain and I'm sure that anyone working in this area would benefit
> from his advice---but I have a sense that he is not involved with
> whatever is happening at RedHat. In the interest of the MSP430
> community, could you guys brief each other on your plans and such? I
> have a feeling that this is something doable via a fairly short phone
> conversation.

Peter and I had a nice chat early on, but out of necessity we did the 
port without his considerable expertise.  I think gcc is just about 
ready to be checked in, at which point the upstream sources will be 
complete and available for everybody to use without special patching. 
Once that completes, I will send a note, but also: I would like to 
encourage everybody who wants to contribute to the new tools to submit 
their patches upstream: This makes sure every future release is the best 
release ever.

> I do know that Brendan super busy because of his involvement with the
> Fedora/Redhat ARM project, which is booming now, what with it becoming
> an official Fedora architecture and with the buzz and activity around
> Beaglebone Black---nevertheless, I hope something could be done re.
> MSP430 in the short term.

Fedora-ARM is a demanding mistress :-)  Fortunately the engineers doing 
the real work on the MSP 430 GNU tools can give it much more attention: 
Kevin Buettner, DJ Delorie, and Nick Clifton.  Hopefully TI will have an 
update of their own in the near future.  Cheers,

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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / bl...@re...