On 10/9/07, Brian D. Horn <Brian.Horn at sun.com> wrote:
> 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?

I'm just using the toolchain from
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ppc-dev/tools/ . I've included a
build log.


> >>> 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?

I think it's a PReP machine actually. So, a bootable floppy just like
PC ? or just fat12 and then give openfirmware "boot floppy:unix " ? or
some other thing ?

Thanks
-John
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