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Re: Bug#980889: RFP: binutils-sh-elf -- cross binary utilities for SuperH bare-metal systems



Hi John!

On 9/26/21 13:05, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> This package would provide GNU Binutils suited for embedded targets, and
>> would be suited for both SH-1 and SH-2 hardware at least [1]. This is needed
>> to build carl9170, the libre wireless firmware for AR9170 devices that's
>> currently in firmware-linux-free. That will require GCC and Newlib as well.
>
> I'm Debian's sh4 maintainer and I would be willing to sponsor this provided
> that Matthias is fine with a separate binutils package.

I had a look at the package and it throws a number of lintian errors. Are you
planning to address these or are they common for all binutils-$ARCH-elf packages
we currently have in Debian?

Adrian

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