4.11 Branching To Do

[Joel Sherrill]

On October 29, 2014 6:35:54 PM CDT, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>On 30/10/2014 8:49 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> Mandatory
>> ==========
>> + Tool version selection
>>     - Likely gcc 4.9 on almost all targets.
>
>All but m32c and h8300 ?

Yes AFAIK. 

>>     - binutils last release
>>     - newlib TBD
>
>What happened about the snapshots ?

We need to ask Jeff J. about that. He was on holiday.

>>     - GDB could be new release
>
>Patches need updating. They are in the rtems-tools repo. Anyone on the 
>list able to help ? The change is simple. GDB remove the old P() 
>wrappers around decls and that broke the patches I created.

Please.

>> + BeagleBoard BSP added
>
>Yes this is important.

+1

>> + Run-Time Loader merged and tested
>
>A patch has been posted but it needs at least a v2 before being merged.
>
>I need to add tests and this needs a tool to generate a suitable kernel
>
>symbol table. I am working on adding this to the rtems-syms tool in the
>
>rtems-tools repo. That part is ok but it has uncovered an issue with
>the 
>RTL code living in librtemscpu.a. It seems the symbol table's object 
>file and the RTL in a library results in some strange dependency dance 
>where unresolved externals happen. It is proving difficult to track
>down.

I have faith you will resolve that before we get the other issues ironed out.

>Chris