-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robin Getz schreef: > On Fri 10 Aug 2007 16:36, Rob Landley pondered: >> On Thursday 09 August 2007 8:19:02 pm Robin Getz wrote:
>>> - build bfin-uclinux- toolchain (for flat apps) >>> - build bfin-linux-uclibc- toolchain (for fdpic) >> Huh, I wonder what an fdpic is... Probably not the Federal Data Protection >> and Information Commissioner (first hit)... Goggling for "fdpic blackfin" >> has this as the first reasonable hit: >> >> http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=simple_hello_world_application_example_asm >> >> Which uses it but isn't about it... > > fdpic was orginally done for noMMU FRV, by Alexandre Oliva, and the nice > folks > at RedHAT - we just copied them. > > Although it is listed on: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_operating_system_kernels#Binary_format_support > it doesn't have it's own page, and I forget what it stands for. > > Alexandre decided (rightly so) that the limitations of flat files for noMMU > suck, > and fdpic is as close to elf as you can be, without running with virtual > memory. > It provides Position Independent Code and Dynamic Shared Objects. > > http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/gnupro/FRV/FDPIC-ABI.txt So fdpic is the future for blackfin, right? And I should aim for making that the default when you build a toolchain for blackfin with OE, right? Is there a gcc[1] out there that can do fdpic and if there isn't, where can I get the patch? regards, Koen [1] gcc 4.2.1 and bfin-gcc4 don't seem to have it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGvXqHMkyGM64RGpERAkE9AJ9KbEi95TQCMTff7P6T3H1Q4GBcNwCeJM+a oe5cn3Esrpv/lOGijYTnZcE= =QAPX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
