On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 09:18 +0300, Stefan Kristiansson wrote: <snip>
> You're most probably right that creating the GCC port is > the hard part, but there is a "shortcut" available. > I'd be more inclined to use LLVM/Clang as a stepping stone, > the effort required to get such a port up and running is > a lot less steep (I'm clearly biased here though ;)) > > Without any prior compiler internals experience I think > it took about a month, working a couple of hours each evening, > to get the OR1K LLVM/Clang port compile u-boot and run it > (admittedly, I had some initial help by the effort started by > Jonas Bonn and the example OpenRISC LLVM backend by > Anton Korobeynikov, but it's still a good reference how quick > you can get something useful out of it). > Around the 2 month mark I got uClibc and busybux compiling and running. Hi Stefan, That's a good point. Using LLVM as a starting point is a very good idea. Best wishes, Jeremy -- Tel: +44 (1590) 610184 Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 SkypeID: jeremybennett Email: [email protected] Web: www.embecosm.com _______________________________________________ OpenRISC mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc
