On 12/23/05, ken mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > ken mays wrote:
> > > Ahh. I wanted to mak sure we all worked from the
> > same
> > > pile of coal. Then, do we have a clean build of
> > > binutils 2.16.1 we can post up on the OpenSolaris
> > > site?
> >
> > These are different binutils I think - Dennis was
> > talking
> > about Linux binutils he used to build GRUB2. Right,
> > Dennis ?
> >
> > Cyril
>
> Date: Dec 23, 2005 - Genesi ODW Solaris/PPC project
>
> Hello,
>
> Ok, I've posted a new binutils_ppc-2.16.1 which should
> work for a standard Solaris 8/9/10 x86 build to a
> PowerPC target.
>
> http://www.blastwave.org/testing
> binutils_ppc-2.16.1-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
Ken,
that package is built for Little Endian PPC target.
The Polaris port is Big Endian. Another minor point
is that support for Solaris 8, 9 and 10 is not mandatory.
It is very likely that the only workable setup would be
current SXCR x86, which means supporting previous
Solaris version isn't really necessary. Also I feel like
keeping the cross tool chain outside of /opt/csw.
The toolchain is specialized for one specific task -
cross compiling Polaris and we need it as a bridge
until we get to self hosted PowerPC environment.
After that we can just kill it and use native toolchain
(most probably GNU, but native, not cross)
It is my understanding that you've build the stock
2.16.1 sources without any patches, right ?
Regards,
Cyril
>
> The goal is that we can work on this and get approval
> from Sun/Freescale/Genesi on its compliance to any
> other work.
We ARE the community and we have to approve our
own work I think.
>
> Feel free to provide approved patches to me and on the
> website so we can keep the project moving.
Did you try the patches for 2.16 ?
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/power_pc/ppc_tools/polaris.binutils-2.16.diff
> Check things out and let me know if this helps,
>
> Ken Mays
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