From: Greg Ungerer <g...@snapgear.com>
Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] ARM support
To: "uClinux development list" <uclinux-dev@uclinux.org>
Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 5:36 AM
Hi,
ucli...@browserseal.com
wrote:
On 11/18/2009, "Greg Ungerer" <g...@snapgear.com>
wrote:
ucli...@browserseal.com
wrote:
I'm trying to compile the latest version of
uClinux on ARM and the
multitude of errors that I'm getting leads me
to believe that this
architecture simply is not supported anymore,
hence the first question -
what happened to ARM support and uClinux in
general ? Last time I
checked, i.e. about two years ago, it was
probably the most popular
embedded distro, at least for ARM - and now it
does not even compile !
You are wrong, it does compile. I have an
automated build system that
builds approximately 150 board/kernel/lib
combinations(*) each night.
Every release is run through this. It compiles
GDB/ARMulator with
linux-2.4.x and linux-2.6.x kernels and both
little and big endian
and the GDB/Skyeye target with 2.4.x and 2.6.x
kernels (using my
arm-linux- toolchains).
(* of course the whole uClinux-dist tree has way
more than 150 possible
combinations of board/kernel/lib. With the
resources I have that is
about as much as I can cover in a single day. I
have just chosen a
variety of interesting targets on a variety of CPU
types to test
compile for).
I will send a separate email with compilation
errors, I just think that
it would be better to have a separate thread
for this general
discussion. Provided there is anybody out
there interested in discussing
ARM, which I seriously doubt.
Are you serious?
The only conclusion I can draw from your problems
is that people who
choose to use various other toolchains with the
uClinux-dist don't
choose to send patches back to make them work
properly with the
dist.
I believe I did provide a complete list of the changes
required to
compile uClinux with this other, i.e. Codesourcery,
toolchain and you
did say that you think it is the toolchain that has to
be changed. What
did I miss ?
Patches please.
Please note that people new to uClinux are most likely
to use
Codesourcery toolchain, rather than 2007 one from
uClinux web site.
I guess I don't follow that logic. Why would someone
unfamiliar with
uClinux not choose a toolchain from the links on that
page?
Sure I would like to see the dist code work with lots of
toolchains.
And I don't want to put a warning like "you must use these
toolchains"
on the download pages.
Regards
Greg
P.S. I'm not here to blame anybody, but rather try to
make uClinux
better. It did take me some time, a few days to be
exact, to find and
summarize the solutions to all the issues with
these other toolchain.
Regards
Greg
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