On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 20:49 +1100, Michael Neuling wrote: > > I have built a cross compiler for ppc440 in little endian mode and > > using it to build the kernel. > > > > Yes i am running Linux in Little-Endian. This is the first user space > > process. I wrote the below program and running it as init from > > /sbin/init. I have also set the permissions with chmod +s. > > > > main() > > { > > > > while(1){ > > printf("hello world"); > > sleep(1); > > } > > } > > Does libc even support little endian on PPC?
Ian did a port a while back for uClibc, is that at least partially based on it ? > > I have attached the patch. > > This is a pretty huge patch: > > 115 files changed, 44479 insertions(+), 7398 deletions(-) > > It seems to include a new platform as well as a bunch of unrelated junk. > > I suggest you need to break this down into something more digestible. > Like remove all the junk in the patch. Then add the support for the new > platform (invader? platform). Then start looking at little endian. > Unless you do this, it's unlikely anyone here is going to be able to > help. > > When you get to the little endian work, you might want to take a look at > this patch series from Ian Munsie: > > http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2010-October/086165.html Right, the new patch should be if possible based on Ian's series or at least a cleaned / rebased variant of it. Then split in bits so we can review it properly. Cheers, Ben. > Mikey > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org > https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev