Maverick toolchain

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 20/07/10 16:53, Robbie Williamson wrote:
> On 20/07/10 12:25, Matthias Klose wrote:
>   
>> I suggest to enable the Linaro GCC on amd64, i386 and powerpc as well,
>> given the  comittment of the Linaro toolchain working group to
>> addressing potential regressions on amd64 and i386 too.
>>     
>
> Doko, thank you for the feedback. Given that we are midway through the
> release cycle, and that we have not done *any* system testing with the
> amd64 and i386 packages/kernels built using this toolchain, I'm
> concerned with making this change now.  As acting release manager, I
> propose we move to Linaro's GCC now for the armel flavor of Ubuntu
> 10.10, and make the change for amd64 and i386 in 11.04.
>   

I don't want to rock the RM boat, especially since I'm responsible for
the tighter timelines of 10.10, but this is a change which has been in
play since UDS, has had extensive analysis and a full rebuild test with
detailed examination. It's certainly not a new thing being raised at
this stage, and we agreed not to press the issue earlier only because
the offer was made to do the testing and decide then. It would be wrong
to have made that offer and then decline to make the change even after
the testing comes back as favourably as it did - next time, folks won't
be as willing to leave the door open for extended analysis.

It's also quite material to the collaboration of Linaro and the rest of
the platform.

Mark