Ivan Kabaivanov wrote: > And while I agree that some devs' reluctance to include ppc, sparc, etc to > the > stock book is due to the lack of support, and the lack of developers actively > hacking on these architectures, I wonder if this is an egg-and-chicken > question. There are not enough ppc/sparc/etc devs because LFS does not > officially support ppc/sparc/etc?
Thanks for the post, Ivan. You've illustrated the point I was trying to make. > And here are the two extra sparc64 packages: > sparc-utils (ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/sparc-utils): provides > elf2out, sparc32, prtconf and eeprom > silo: the sparc bootloader > > Oh, and one last thing, in order to build a 32bit userland on an ultrasparc > every command in the book that has a bash needs to be sparc32 bash -- this > fools the shell into thinking we're running on a 32bit sparc. Which means > sparc-utils must be the very first statically built package in stage5. This > saves you the trouble of cross compiling. Ah, cool, thanks for the feedback here. I'm sure your help/suggestions/patches will be useful in the future. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
