[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 2/2] toolchain/arc: update to the most recent release arc-2017.09

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 01/24/2018 06:26 PM, Evgeniy Didin wrote:
> This commit finally bumps ARC tools to the most recent arc-2017.09 release version.
> 
> ARC GNU tools of version arc-2017.09 bring some quite significant changes like:
>  * Binutils v2.29 with additional ARC patches
>  * GCC 7.1.1 with additional ARC patches
> 
> More information on this release could be found here: 
>   https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/toolchain/releases/tag/arc-2017.09-release 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Didin <Evgeniy.Didin at synopsys.com>
> CC: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
> CC: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
> ---

Would it be possible to use upstream gcc 7, upstream binutils 2.29 and
upstream gdb 8 instead of the special arc versions?
If you need some extra patches you can add them to the existing patches
directory.

If this is not possible will this be possible with the next major
versions of gcc, binutils and gdb?

I would like to get rid of most of the arc specialties and make arc
behave more like all the other targets.

Hauke