[Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot:packagetarget/device/Atmel

Hans-Christian Egtvedt hcegtvedt at norway.atmel.com
Thu Jul 26 23:07:48 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 18:55 +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> tor 2007-07-26 klockan 09:29 +0200 skrev Hans-Christian Egtvedt:
> > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 08:03 +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 00:49 +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> > > >> > ulf at uclibc.org wrote: 
> > 
> > <cut info about AVR32 toolchain patches>
> > 
> > > > Right now they are roughly 8 MB for all the tools (gcc, binutils, gdb,
> > > > strace, uClibc and kernel). But this is in plain text, and they compress
> > > > well.
> > >
> 
> The full buildroot is about 6 MB so this is more than doubling
> the download time.
> At home in Stockholm with 100 Mbps Ethernet it is less of a problem,
> but where I am now with 10-20 kB/s Internet access it sucks...
> A prepatched toolchain which is downloaded once is a much
> more attractive alternative, so this is what I am going to submit.

Only problem is that we do not (yet) have a prepatched toolchain
available on the net which is IMHO working.

When bzip'ing a 3 MB text file it usually ends up well below 500k, still
to big though :/

-- 
Mvh
Hans-Christian Egtvedt



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