On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:17:21PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> Since winkie banned me from #cross-lfs, I'll ask my questions here:
> 
> I'm banging on a PPC with uClibc system to run under uClibc, starting from 
> http://cross-lfs.org/view/1.0.0/ppc/ and I have a few questions.
> 
> 1) page http://cross-lfs.org/view/1.0.0/ppc/cross-tools/variables.html
> 
> This builds for the tuple "powerpc-unknown-linux" but what PPC variant is 
> that?  I'm guessing ppc7xx, not ppc4xx or any of the newer stuff?
> 
 I think it's generic, so probably a 603 or something else equally
ancient.

> 2) page http://cross-lfs.org/view/1.0.0/ppc/cross-tools/linux-headers.html
> 
> What's the deal with the "ppc" and "powerpc" /include/asm directories?  I 
> vaguely remember the kernel guys migrating stuff last year, but my question 
> is about headers referring to /include/asm.  The instructions say to make the 
> powerpc-asm directory /include/asm, but _also_ to copy /include/ppc-asm into 
> the kernel headers under that name?  This is the first architecture I've seen 
> that for, and I'm wondering what's going on.  (Is there any backstory here?)
> 

 ISTR jim was recommended to do that by somebody.  I think it's
probably harmless, but almost all my powerpc builds are on a G5
these days.

Ken
-- 
 Eek, UTF-8 breakage in my current build, this sig is in ascii!
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