Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
David Given wrote: You've got two major tasks ahead of you: - - port gcc - - port the kernel - - cross-compile a basic userland Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition. Actually, there is one more major headache, which is porting a boot loader. Probably uBoot or something similar.

Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello David, Am 2007-09-17 19:46:20, schrieb David Given: You've got two major tasks ahead of you: - - port gcc OK, it seems that parts of gcc went used under Windows... Maybe it will easy to port it native to Linux. - - port the kernel Since it is a All-In-On-Chip, there is not realy

Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-19 Thread Daniel Bayer
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-09-17 19:46:20, schrieb David Given: For the former, you'll need to write a new gcc backend targeting your architecture, and then add support to binutils to allow programs to be linked. This is not easy. gcc's

Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-19 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-09-17 19:46:20, schrieb David Given: [...] Now you have both a compiler and a kernel, you can use your compiler to generate a userland --- as set of basic binaries to get your system up and running --- and then boot

Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-09-17 12:16:18, schrieb Bastian Blank: On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:32:06AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: since 2007-08-01 I am now jobless (yeah, the new French GOV do not like that I stay in the army as PMC) and today (Saturday) I was asked by an owner of a german Enterprise

How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello *, since 2007-08-01 I am now jobless (yeah, the new French GOV do not like that I stay in the army as PMC) and today (Saturday) I was asked by an owner of a german Enterprise whether it is possibel to port GNU/Linux, specialy Debian to this new ARCHITECTURE. Now I need to ask you, how one

Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:32:06AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: since 2007-08-01 I am now jobless (yeah, the new French GOV do not like that I stay in the army as PMC) and today (Saturday) I was asked by an owner of a german Enterprise whether it is possibel to port GNU/Linux, specialy

Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-17 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michelle Konzack wrote: [...] since 2007-08-01 I am now jobless (yeah, the new French GOV do not like that I stay in the army as PMC) and today (Saturday) I was asked by an owner of a german Enterprise whether it is possibel to port GNU/Linux,