Gregory H. Nietsky wrote: > > Ok actually reading the book again .... in "iii. LFS Target > Architectures" > > You welcome to add ARMv7l to the list same rules apply as PPC infact > ARM is "easier" and mostly out the box.
OK, I'll add that. a disclaimer is that i build > it mostly cross with qemu-user running it this way on a i7x8 is > faster than a exynos5 but i have built a functional system natively > QT4 takes good few hours and icedtea even longer. a raspberry PI is > a "lower" spec system that it should work on may need extra switches > to operate with its FPU. > > also x32 is a posiblity to run 32bit ILP (int,long,ptr) with 4GB > memory limit per process allowing 32bit addressing using 64bit > instructions/registers this is for embeded systems with limited > memory. binaries are smaller memory footprint is lower but higher > than 32bit. > > KIDS DO NOT TRY x32 @ home its not 100% friendly LFS works fine but > to bootstrap it you MUST CROSS build from 64bit and its not pretty. > once its up and going works fine. BLFS will mostly work, ASM will > need tweeks/disable QT4 can be tortured to build i have patched > mplayer to work but without the "optimizations" its a nice way to > juice a intel atom as a "server". Also the kernel must be 64bit with > x32 support. Some things just dont work for one ADA builds fine with > some bodgery but time functions are b0rk3d system uses 64bit and ada > 32bit i have got icedtea to build on it for "educational" purposes > only as it runs with the "zero" hotspot only. i strongly recommend > using a multilib system with at least x32/64 bit support and use > 64bit versions of programs which x32 does not provide this adds hard > drive bloat and likely reverses all gains on low memory footprint as > you will run 2 versions of DLL's in memory in many cases. You might consider writing a hint. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/howtowrite.html -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
