Re: [uClinux-dev] Newbe NOMMU question.

2010-04-21 Thread Jeff Bacon
On 4/21/2010 11:04 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: when I do things like sleep or cp. Does anyone have any advice about how to approach these issues? Should I try to write applications to handle these things instead of using shell scripts? Well if your shell scripts run and terminate

Re: [uClinux-dev] Newbe NOMMU question.

2010-04-21 Thread Jeff Bacon
On 4/21/2010 11:25 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:21:19AM -0400, Jeff Bacon wrote: What version of Busybox are you using? I am finding it difficult to make a newer version (1.15.x, 1.16.0) that small. In fact, when I configure it with a single applet, I still

Re: [uClinux-dev] slob, slab, slub

2009-12-17 Thread Jeff Bacon
Philip Nye wrote: Is there a consensus on the slab allocator of choice in a NoMMU build? Since it is described as a drastically simpler allocator I thought SLOB would suit my minimalist approach, but the my kernel will not boot with it. I do not know whether this is simply a matter of

Re: [uClinux-dev] ARM support

2009-11-17 Thread Jeff Bacon
ucli...@browserseal.com wrote: I'm trying to compile the latest version of uClinux on ARM and the multitude of errors that I'm getting leads me to believe that this architecture simply is not supported anymore, hence the first question - what happened to ARM support and uClinux in general ?

Re: [uClinux-dev] ARM compilation errors

2009-11-17 Thread Jeff Bacon
ucli...@browserseal.com wrote: I first tried to compile for ARM SkyeEye simulator with default settings, i.e. glibc. The compilation failed at the glibc patch phase. I than changed glibc to uClibc (BTW, why glibc is the default, it used to be uClibc !?) and the compilation failed with the

Re: [uClinux-dev] ARM compilation errors

2009-11-17 Thread Jeff Bacon
ucli...@browserseal.com wrote: On 11/17/2009, Jeff Bacon jbac.uc@gmail.com wrote: ucli...@browserseal.com wrote: Sounds like a toolchain issue, not a source issue. I'm not an expert in this area though, perhaps someone else will respond.. At which point I gave up

Re: [uClinux-dev] ARM compilation errors

2009-11-17 Thread Jeff Bacon
ucli...@browserseal.com wrote: On 11/17/2009, Jeff Bacon jbac.uc@gmail.com wrote: ucli...@browserseal.com wrote: On 11/17/2009, Jeff Bacon jbac.uc@gmail.com wrote: ucli...@browserseal.com wrote: Sounds like a toolchain issue, not a source issue. I'm

Re: [uClinux-dev] ARM compilation errors

2009-11-17 Thread Jeff Bacon
ucli...@browserseal.com wrote: Can you please run arm-uclinuxeabi-gcc -v for me ? They are all called arm-uclinuxeabi-gcc. BTW, I tried 2009q1 uClinux version (gcc version 4.3.3 (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q1-163)) and got the same error with limits.h. Did you have to make the link to

Re: [uClinux-dev] What toolchain for ARM w/o MMU (non-XIP)?

2009-08-07 Thread Jeff Bacon
on a custom MMU-less ARM platform and keep running into user-space crashes. In reading through the archives it looks like I'm running into the same problems Jeff Bacon reported last spring: http://mailman.uclinux.org/pipermail/uclinux-dev/2009-May/000914.html http://mailman.uclinux.org/pipermail

[uClinux-dev] make executing twice

2009-06-19 Thread Jeff Bacon
I have no idea how this started, I just noticed it starting today. Whenever I run a make menuconfig on the top level uClinux directory (or a make gconfig) no matter what options I select, everything seems to execute twice. For example, if I just select my processor and don't select any kernel or

Re: [uClinux-dev] building gcc 3.4.4

2009-06-16 Thread Jeff Bacon
everything? -JB Andreas Fenkart wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:07:01AM -0400, Jeff Bacon wrote: Sorry, I meant to post back on this topic, but yes, the fixes worked as advertised. I haven't tested every little piece of the compiler, but I can confirm that it gives me working userland XIP now

Re: [uClinux-dev] building gcc 3.4.4

2009-06-11 Thread Jeff Bacon
)/p /,/s|^|*** BUG in libc/scripts/output-format.sed *** |p q : q 4) Add the elf2flt steps from Greg's GCC 4.2.1 build steps since you need it for this package as well. -JB Greg Ungerer wrote: Hi Jeff, Jeff Bacon wrote: After searching the list some more, It looks like someone else

Re: [uClinux-dev] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

2009-06-08 Thread Jeff Bacon
Ales, I just went through this exact same issue and the trouble was the toolchain (gcc 4.x) and the PIC code(looks like you compiled with -fPIC -msingle-pic-base). I was using the snapgear 4.2.2 toolchain to start off with until I found out about this error. I had to recompile my distro with

Re: [uClinux-dev] building gcc 3.4.4

2009-06-04 Thread Jeff Bacon
EXACTLY, so if anyone else has then they would have had to have seen this error I would think. I'm building it on the recommended Fedora Core 3 machine by the way... -JB On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Jeff Bacon jbac.uc@gmail.com wrote: Well, if I look at the build directions for the gcc

[uClinux-dev] building gcc 3.4.4

2009-06-03 Thread Jeff Bacon
Hi, I'm trying to rebuild the gcc 3.4.4 toolchain following the directions from the snapgear website. I had one quick question about the steps. Many of the steps include the statement --with-headers=linux-2.4.x/include For example - 3. gcc-3.4.4 tar xvzf gcc-3.4.4.tar.gz cd gcc-3.4.4

Re: [uClinux-dev] building gcc 3.4.4

2009-06-03 Thread Jeff Bacon
, or if that was just something specific to gcc 4.2.1). -JB On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:19:01PM -0400, Jeff Bacon wrote:   I'm trying to rebuild the gcc 3.4.4 toolchain following the directions from the snapgear website. I had

Re: [uClinux-dev] Busybox and arm7tdmi

2009-06-01 Thread Jeff Bacon
is needed for PIC code to execute properly. -JB On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Erwin Authried ea...@softsys.co.at wrote: Am Samstag, den 30.05.2009, 23:12 -0400 schrieb Jeff Bacon: Erwin,    You were absolutely correct. After going over EVERYTHING with a fine-tooth comb I found the issue

[uClinux-dev] Busybox and arm7tdmi

2009-05-29 Thread Jeff Bacon
Is anyone currently running busybox on and ARM7TDMI using NON_XIP? I have been banging my head against a wall all day because I cannot seem to get it to run correctly. I'm using the Snapgear 3.4.4 arm-linux toolchain and it compiles everything correctly for the non XIP case, all userland binaries

Re: [uClinux-dev] new uClinux-dist patch

2009-05-24 Thread Jeff Bacon
Greg, Quick question. If I want to apply the newest stable patch-set to the base 888 kernel tree, should I only stick with the patch set that is on Sourceforge, or are the ones on the uClinux.org site just as stable(i.e. the one you just uploaded)? I've noticed that the Sourceforge site does

Re: [uClinux-dev] Re: errors when linking without XIP

2009-05-21 Thread Jeff Bacon
that into the elf2flt CVS? Regards Greg Am Mittwoch, den 20.05.2009, 12:29 -0400 schrieb Jeff Bacon: Hi, I've just started on a uClinux 2.6 port to a custom ARM7TDMI board (we've had a uClinux 2.4 kernel running with no problems for a couple of years now, but decided to take

Re: [uClinux-dev] Re: errors when linking without XIP

2009-05-21 Thread Jeff Bacon
andreas.fenk...@streamunlimited.com wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:15:57PM -0400, Jeff Bacon wrote: Thanks! I will try this out and see if it helps. Just curious if you had any thoughts on the rest of my message (any places I should look to for troubleshooting)? Cheers, JB Try

Re: [uClinux-dev] Re: errors when linking without XIP

2009-05-20 Thread Jeff Bacon
20.05.2009, 12:29 -0400 schrieb Jeff Bacon: Hi, I've just started on a uClinux 2.6 port to a custom ARM7TDMI board (we've had a uClinux 2.4 kernel running with no problems for a couple of years now, but decided to take the plunge and upgrade). I just joined the mailing list and am trying