Hi, On 3/25/20 10:54 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi Vineet, > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 05:25:58PM -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> ARC glibc is still in works, but assuming that will happen in near future >> what >> other upstream prerequisites are needed. The obvious ones would be Linux >> kernel, >> gcc, binutils: all 3 of which are supported for ARC. From a quick glance at >> debian >> wiki pages, I presume *bootstrap is mostly done native, so needs qemu ? >> (full/user >> emulation ? And does qemu need to be upstream too ? > Given that I ran into the glibc issue, I can tell that at least > rudimentary arc support support is already available in Debian unstable > for binutils, linux and gcc. (Otherwise, I would not have come as far as > glibc.) Once glibc is in place, work can proceed on the Debian side. > guile, libatomic-ops, libffi, libgpg-error and nspr ususally need a > little upstream support. dpkg, gmp, openssl, and perl usually need > Debian-specific changes. I'd recommend looking into libatomic-ops and > libffi early. The other packages are usually simple. > > The aim of rebootstrap is to create a package set for essential + > build-essential using cross builds without using any qemu. Beyond that > point, you'd switch to native building. Unless real hardware is > available, you'd need qemu after the reboostrap phase. Whether you use > full or user emulation is your choice, but I guess that you can speed up > builds using user emulation, because it allows you to mix and match > binaries. When you upstream your qemu is also your choice. > > Please get in touch with me once a suitable glibc is packaged for Debian > unstable or experimental. Please use debian-cr...@lists.debian.org or > irc.oftc.net #debian-bootstrap at that point. Alternatively, package a > glibc locally (like Arnd did).
Following up as ARC glibc port was merged upstream in 2.32. Can we now give rebootstrap a spin for ARC Debian enablement. Thx, -Vineet _______________________________________________ linux-snps-arc mailing list linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-snps-arc