Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-16 Thread Michael Schnell
at any rate, here is the reason the Blackfin tree has not been merged back into the mainline tree yet: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.uclinux.devel/11456 Let me add that when I used a virtual Box based Linux installation, the staging dir made the compile process _a_lot_ faster, as (for

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-16 Thread Michael Schnell
Seeing two of my three favorite archs merged is really awesome ! (I did consider Blackfin for a project, but in the end I did not even test it, dropping it in favor of NIOS. :( ) (The third arch's distr is not even out for testing yet and it's main feature is SMP, so a this is bound to be a di

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-16 Thread Michael Schnell
You don't need an MMU for PIC or XIP. I do know this. The NIOS gcc3 does not support these. I do hope gcc4 will. -Michael ___ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-16 Thread Michael Schnell
I have tried the new nios2mmu gcc4, and I didn't see big issue. This is GREAT ! (even though I am a little bit afraid of this update). If there is a possibility to have both compilers on my system and switch any time when necessary, I'd like to help testing the new stuff. (If appropriat

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-16 Thread Michael Schnell
glad to see NIOS toolchain port finally getting up to speed. As I am basing my current project on this, I would be greatly let down, it the NIOS-uCLinux dist would not prove to be a serious long living thingy. Regarding the very active mailing list and forum, the 2.6.29 support and updates t

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-15 Thread Thomas Chou
Mike Frysinger wrote: very long time to do the mirror on my machine. So .. would you please spare some time to setup blackfin uClinux-dist git mirror? i'm not sure i understand. there already is one ? Oh..yes, there is one. Even though it is not shown on the front page. Silly me.. - Thoma

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 16 February 2009 00:35:35 Thomas Chou wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > the git trees for our main repos are readonly mirrors. some people find > > it easier to work with git than svn, and it's trivial to provide the > > mirror on our side, so ... > > Even readonly mirror with git will

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-15 Thread Thomas Chou
Mike Frysinger wrote: the git trees for our main repos are readonly mirrors. some people find it easier to work with git than svn, and it's trivial to provide the mirror on our side, so ... Even readonly mirror with git will be helpful to us. It will take very very long time to do the mir

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 15 February 2009 19:56:42 Thomas Chou wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > the logic for merging these two is that NIOS started with the Blackfin > > tree. if the NIOS guys tried to merge with the main tree, they'd hit the > > same issues we did (which is where we are already). > > We are i

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-15 Thread Thomas Chou
Mike Frysinger wrote: at any rate, here is the reason the Blackfin tree has not been merged back into the mainline tree yet: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.uclinux.devel/11456 I can acknowledge that the blackfin's staging approach is an easy and effective way to maintain userspace libra

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-15 Thread Thomas Chou
Mike Frysinger wrote: the logic for merging these two is that NIOS started with the Blackfin tree. if the NIOS guys tried to merge with the main tree, they'd hit the same issues we did (which is where we are already). We are in the midway. We started with the main uClinux-dist, and pulled

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 February 2009 01:29:03 Greg Ungerer wrote: > Michael Schnell wrote: > > What is the cause a reunion is not planned ? > > Anyone is welcome to send patches to this list for uClinux-dist > at any time... (But of course they may or may not end up being > included after consideration). th

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-13 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Michael, Michael Schnell wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: ive tried convincing the uClinux-dist guys to use some of the methodologies that we've adopted in the Blackfin uClinux dist, but it doesnt look like it's going to happen, so ive given up :/ Mike, Thomas, Greg. I always wondered why

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 February 2009 09:34:21 Thomas Chou wrote: > The blackfin has gcc4 already. I have tried the new nios2mmu gcc4, and I > didn't see big issue. gcc-4.1 is the stable version now for the Blackfin port. gcc-4.3 is our experimental version and hopefully will become our stable version over

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 February 2009 03:27:36 Michael Schnell wrote: > > i dont really understand your statement anyways as the current mainline > > uclinux-dist already supports multiple arches. like arm or coldfire or > > mips ... > > Of course you are right. I just wanted to express that it would seems >

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Michael Schnell wrote: > (adding support for MMU, so, PIC, and XIP). You don't need an MMU for PIC or XIP. -- Jamie ___ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by u

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-13 Thread Thomas Chou
Michael Schnell wrote: It does take some effort to do the merge. But we get more when we can share. So you _do_ plan a merge ?!?!?! Yes. You give us this great idea. The maintainer of blackfin uclinux has kindly granted me to commit to their svn repo. I will study and proceed to the merge. T

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Schnell
It does take some effort to do the merge. But we get more when we can share. So you _do_ plan a merge ?!?!?! looks like fun :=) -Michael ___ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev Thi

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Schnell
i dont really understand your statement anyways as the current mainline uclinux-dist already supports multiple arches. like arm or coldfire or mips ... Of course you are right. I just wanted to express that it would seems funny to me to combine the two of Blackfin and NIOS while others are in

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-12 Thread Thomas Chou
Michael Schnell wrote: It seems a little bit funny to have a common Blackfin+NIOS git, as these archs are very different. NIOS will have MMU support some day so this might be not an easy task. There is shared lib support on Blackfin even without MMU, via fdpic. As I am working on Nios2 MMU, I

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-12 Thread Thomas Chou
Mike Frysinger wrote: we require complete visibility on our side so we have our own public server hosting the dist via svn. it is completely up-to-date at all times with the developer and public accessible. This is the same reason that we created a public git server for Nios. It is difficul

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 February 2009 11:40:15 Michael Schnell wrote: > > as for NIOS/Blackfin, i certainly dont have a problem if the NIOS guys > > want to merge their work back with ours... > > It seems a little bit funny to have a common Blackfin+NIOS git, as these > archs are very different. for usersp

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Schnell
as for NIOS/Blackfin, i certainly dont have a problem if the NIOS guys want to merge their work back with ours... It seems a little bit funny to have a common Blackfin+NIOS git, as these archs are very different. NIOS will have MMU support some day so this might be not an easy task. -Michael

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 February 2009 03:56:40 Michael Schnell wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > ive tried convincing the uClinux-dist guys to use some of the > > methodologies that we've adopted in the Blackfin uClinux dist, but it > > doesnt look like it's going to happen, so ive given up :/ > > I always

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Schnell
Mike Frysinger wrote: ive tried convincing the uClinux-dist guys to use some of the methodologies that we've adopted in the Blackfin uClinux dist, but it doesnt look like it's going to happen, so ive given up :/ Mike, Thomas, Greg. I always wondered why there are dedicated "Blackfin" and "N

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-11 Thread Thomas Chou
Mike Frysinger wrote: ive tried convincing the uClinux-dist guys to use some of the methodologies that we've adopted in the Blackfin uClinux dist, but it doesnt look like it's going to happen, so ive given up :/ Hi Mike, We adopted the excellent works from Blackfin uClinux dist to Nios2 uCl

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 11 February 2009 19:26:48 Lars Holowko wrote: > Thanks a lot Mike, > > config.in-to-kconfig.sh did the trick. great, glad it worked for you > By the way, I really like to support multiple versions of an app in your > user tree. I hope the uclinux-dist people will pick it up for their

RE: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-11 Thread Lars Holowko
] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:03 PM To: Lars Holowko Cc: uclinux-dev@uclinux.org Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox On Tuesday 10 February 2009 19:42:45 Lars Holowko wrote: > I digged around a litte bit in uClinux-dist-2008R1.5-RC3. Are

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 19:42:45 Lars Holowko wrote: > I digged around a litte bit in uClinux-dist-2008R1.5-RC3. Are you > referring to > /old/OpenLinux/uClinux-work/user/busybox1110/uclinux-configs/update? that file isnt from the Blackfin uClinux dist, so no > Looks like I am on the wrong tr

RE: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-10 Thread Lars Holowko
Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox On Tuesday 10 February 2009 12:32:47 Lars Holowko wrote: > I am trying to upgrade the busybox that is part of uClinux-dist to a > current version. > The original busybox just comes with Config.in but no Kcon

Re: [uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 12:32:47 Lars Holowko wrote: > I am trying to upgrade the busybox that is part of uClinux-dist to a > current version. > The original busybox just comes with Config.in but no Kconfig files, the > latter needed by the uClinux build process. > > Since the Kconfig files and

[uClinux-dev] howto generate Kconfig files from Config.in for busybox

2009-02-10 Thread Lars Holowko
I am trying to upgrade the busybox that is part of uClinux-dist to a current version. The original busybox just comes with Config.in but no Kconfig files, the latter needed by the uClinux build process. Since the Kconfig files and the Config.in files look almost identical (mostly USER_BUSYBOX_ pre