Thanks for the information, it's very useful. Is there any mail list I can 
register myself to receive future update about toolchain?

-----Original Message-----
From: Christophe Lyon [mailto:christophe.l...@linaro.org] 
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 1:47 AM
To: Vincent Chen <vinc...@nvidia.com>
Cc: linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: Does Linaro GCC 5.4 fully support ARMv8.2-A

We track FSF branches as follows: when a new release branch 'N' is available, 
we switch our active releases to it.

Branch N-1 goes to maintenance mode, and branch N-2 goes to 
best-effort/as-needed until the branch is closed on the FSF side.

As of today, this means that:
- gcc-linaro-7 is our active release branch. We provide quarterly binary 
releases, and monthly source snapshots. We do monthly branch-merges and 
backport interesting patches from trunk.
- gcc-linaro-6 is in maintenance mode. We provide quarterly binary releases and 
monthly source snapshots. We do monthly branch-merges.
- gcc-linaro-5 is in "as-needed" mode. We provide binary releases when needed. 
In practice, we are in the process of creating our final gcc-linaro-5, since 
the FSF gcc-5 branch was closed recently with the
gcc-5.5 release.

All this will shift when the FSF releases gcc-8 (probably in April or May 
2018), which probably means we'll have our final gcc-linaro-6 release in about 
a year from now. However we are currently modifying our release process, so 
don't take this for granted.

Christophe



On 18 October 2017 at 20:34, Vincent Chen <vinc...@nvidia.com> wrote:
> Thanks Christophe. In terms of Linaro GCC6.4 how long the supported life 
> cycle is?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christophe Lyon [mailto:christophe.l...@linaro.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 2:36 AM
> To: Vincent Chen <vinc...@nvidia.com>
> Cc: linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org
> Subject: Re: Does Linaro GCC 5.4 fully support ARMv8.2-A
>
> Hi Vincent,
>
> We have backported ARMv8.2 support to our gcc-linaro-6 branch, so gcc
> 5.4 does not support ARMv8.2-A. You have to use gcc-linaro-6 or more recent.
>
> Christophe
>
>
> On 17 October 2017 at 20:31, Vincent Chen <vinc...@nvidia.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are evaluating LInaro GCC5.4 readiness for ARMv8.2-A extension support 
>> but can't find direct answer if all the features has been 
>> supported/backported.
>>
>> Can you point me to the answer?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vincent
>>
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