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! _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clfs-support
