Re: [avr-gcc-list] Porting Atmel patches

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Behalf Of Adam Seychell
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 10:18 PM
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> Subject: [avr-gcc-list] Porting Atmel patches
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> Hi
> 
> I have joined this list to get help with port 8bit AVR patches
> disributed with Atmel's AVR toolchain to the current official GCC, and
> binutils. As you may be aware, Atmel have separated development from the
> official gcc, binutils and avr-libc projects. I am new making
> contributions to FSF and so I am initially interested the procedures
> involved.

We are already in process of porting the patches to get them committed upstream.

 
> 
> Now that I have successfully built gcc, binutils and avr-libc supporting
> all AVR devices offered by Atmel, would it be worth my while trying to
> submitting these changes to the official releases  ?

As mentioned, we're already in the process of doing this.

But would you be interested in helping out in other ways, like perhaps bug 
fixes in any of those projects (binutils, gcc, avr-libc)?

Would you be interested in other open source projects for the AVR toolchain?

Eric Weddington
Marketing Manager
Open Source & Community
Atmel