Hi all, I proudly announce that we finally have the first two prototypes of our boards based on the MPC852T running. Until now it looks like one of those lucky "one-time-right" designs, since it went flawless until now. We have 64 MByte SDRAM on-board, an ethernet Phy (FEC), 4 Mbyte Flash, etc... Since I'm quite crazy, and love running "big-stuff" on "small-things" I decided to install Debian-unstable (sid) on an nfs-mounted root. So far, so good. I compiled a kernel with FPU-emulation just in case, and went through the installation of the base system using glibc-2.3.1 from ELDK binaries plugged on top of the version from debian, to avoid further incompatibilities. Now, after apt-getting a hell of a lot of fancy software (all running quite fine until now - except floating-point-libc stuff), the time has come to recompile GlibC..... on the target!
Question: What do I have to patch exactly before compiling? I want to leave floating-point stuff in there for now to stay compatible with debian-binaries. AFAIK there is (was?) an issue with sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/memset.S and sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-machine.c containing code that assumed a cache-line of different size than that of the MPC8xx. Is this still the case in glibc-2.3.2? Hasn't this been patched in the official sources? What else do I have to look out for? What other patches to apply? Where to get them from? Greetings, -- David Jander Protonic Holland. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/