On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Toby Bryans wrote:
> StrongARM RPC. I would now like to move the whole lot up to
> kernel 2.2.12 and the latest binutils and tool chain. AFAICT from
> the documentation this requires me to build a cross-compiler on
> an ix86 box, and then compile everything from there (in effect
> rebuilding the whole system).
You seem to be with-it on the issues here, so this should be fairly
painless. :)
The easiest thing you can do is install the partial port of RedHat 6.
Go to ftp.inkvine.fluff.org:/pub/armlinux/people/chris/misc/a.out+libc4/
and follow the instructions, and then you can install the RPMs stored
at the same location -- this includes binary RPMs of binutils and egcs
from about six months ago.
Unfortunately (ish) I'm not actively working on supporting this any
longer, however. Stefan Hanske is still active in this area, though,
I believe.
> As well from the speed issues and the
> whole 12Mb max of a.out are there any ways of redoing the whole lot
> on the SARPC? I suspect not.
Certainly. Follow http://www.inkvine.fluff.org/~chris/arm-tools.html
to build yourself an up-to-date toolchain on your RiscPC, and then
compile whatever you want to (so long as you're savvy enough to
hack the bits and pieces that fall off under ARM).
Unless you're desperately keen to go down this route, I wouldn't
recommend it -- try one of the binary distributions.
> Is there an alternative source for a 2.2 installation (I notice that
> there is talk of a debian install for example) to save me from doing
> all of this?
The slightly less easy, but ultimately probably more profitable
route is to install Debian. You'll need to fetch the binary image
from ftp.jimpick.com:/pub/debian/arm/image/, and un-tar it as
your new root filesystem. There's a list of small things you'll
need to patch (a couple of duff permissions) to make it happy on the
RiscPC, but once you've done that and got it booted, you can then
use apt/dpkg to install the binary-arm packages on the Debian FTP
servers.
Think about which route you would best like to go down, and then ask
for some more specific help.
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