--- Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 18 June 2007, Alex Landau wrote:
> > --- Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 17 June 2007, Alex Landau wrote:
> > > > Blackfin (and other no-MMU's too, I guess) use the bFLT file format
> > > > instead of (or in addition to) ELF, and therefore requires special
> > > > LDFLAGS and not stripping. The attached patch does exactly that. It
> > > > adds a blackfin/ directory under arch/ with a Makefile handling these
> > > > details.
> > > >
> > > > Builds of busybox with "make" won't be affected, those with "make
> > > > ARCH=blackfin CROSS_COMPILE=bfin-uclinux-" will.
> > >
> > > erm, no, we dont want this. Blackfin, unlike [almost] every no-MMU arch
> > > out there, also supports FDPIC ELF via the bfin-linux-uclibc toolchain.
> >
> > ... which I haven't found in the release section of blackfin.uclinux.org
> > for release 2007r1. Maybe I haven't looked well enough, though.
>
> it's part of the default release ... the main package includes both
> bfin-uclinux and bfin-linux-uclibc
Right, I overlooked it...
>
> > Anyway, since Blackfin supports bFLT, and almost all docs guide you how to
> > compile ones apps into bFLT, I don't see a reason to force people to use
> > FDPIC ELFs (which are also bigger in size, and don't support compression
> > IIRC). If a simple make worked by producing ELFs, it will continue to do so
> > with the patch too, but those who want bFLT will be satisfied too.
> > Alternatively, there are other solutions, like "make ARCH=blackfin" and
> > "make ARCH=blackfin-flt", or "make ARCH=blackfin" and "make ARCH=blackfin
> > FORMAT=flt"...
>
> i'm not forcing anything ... the current system works for both
>
> FDPIC ELF:
> make CROSS_COMPILE=bfin-linux-uclibc-
> FLAT:
> LDFLAGS=-Wl,-elf2flt make CROSS_COMPILE=bfin-uclinux-
> -mike
>
It's as simple as it could be. Why haven't I thought of that? :-)
Alex
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