John Sonnenschein wrote:
>
> On 8-Oct-07, at 12:20 PM, Brian D. Horn wrote:
>
>> John Sonnenschein wrote:
>>> Anyone had problems with building polaris recently? I've got the new
>>> tools & i just checked out from SVN about 10 minutes ago, but the
>>> build fails in a couple places that I can correct ( duplication of a
>>> function probably because of errant c&p, and an incorrectly defined
>>> struct ), but even after fixing them dies with screen after screen of
>>> linker errors ( offset <foo> is non-aligned)
>>>
>> This is why several weeks ago I had queried whether anyone had even 
>> tried.  Since then
>> one (other than yourself) person outside of Sun has tried pulling 
>> from the external svn
>> repository and has reported a few problems.  Tom has been addressing 
>> them as they
>> are reported.  He expects to have everything fixed up and working by 
>> the end of this
>> week (or that is what he told me :-).  With respect to the linker 
>> errors.... well, just guessing
>> that you don't have the GCC tool chain fixes were the compiler DOES 
>> generate misaligned
>> relocations.  I fixed that in our copy, but why I queried how to get 
>> this back into the "official"
>> code release I got nowhere.  I believe that all the problems are 
>> related to dwarf section relocations, so
>> if you remove the -gdwarf2 from Makefile.master (I think that is 
>> where the usage exists) those problem
>> will go away.  If you wish to keep those I can try and help you fix 
>> the GCC tools.
>
> Hmm... doesn't appear removing -gdwarf2 from usr/src/Makefile.master 
> worked
Interesting.  Which GCC tool chain are you using.  Perhaps they have it 
broken even
worse in the release you have.  Can you forward the output for examination?
>
>>> Also, any chance when the kernel build I can boot it off a floppy or
>>> such yet, I've had no luck getting this rs/6000 booting off the
>>> network
>>>
>>>
>> Does the RS/6000 box you have support OpenFirmware (I would think it 
>> would, but I have
>> no idea whether or not it works properly, given that I've never used 
>> a RS/6000 box)?
>>
>> Right now the port has only been tested with using an NFS root, 
>> though I don't know of any
>> reason why a UFS root would not work.  I'm encouraged you are trying 
>> though.  Please keep
>> us (all of us) apprising of your results.
>
> TBH, I'm not even sure what sort of disk format this machine wants. 
> It's openfirmware, so I assume it's some sort of standard format, but 
> I couldn't dredge up any docu on it
With PReP it was FAT12 on the floppy.  Is an RS/6000 CHRP compliant?

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