x86(host) --> ppc(tgt) cross-tool-chain

Hello,

Using Karim's new book "Building Embedded Linux Systems", has anyone out there successfully built an x86(host) --> ppc(tgt) tool chain using the versions stipulated in the book (gcc 2.95.3, binutils: 2.10.1, glibc, 2.2.1).

If yes:

(a) What host system are you using?

(b) Did you diverge from the directions in the book?

If no:

(a) Can someone out there suggest a known valid combination?


I anticipate needing ssh, some web-server and snmp as application requirements, so I figured it would be prudent to get the tool-chain working with glibc as opposed to uClibc.

-- Brian


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BTW, there's an ongoing thread about exactly this problem
on the embeddedTUX.org mailing list:
http://www.embeddedtux.org/pipermail/etux/2003-June/thread.html

Apparently you're not alone ...

Karim

brian.auld@adic.com wrote:

Hello,

Using Karim's new book "Building Embedded Linux Systems", has anyone out there successfully built an x86(host) --> ppc(tgt) tool chain using the versions stipulated in the book (gcc 2.95.3, binutils: 2.10.1, glibc, 2.2.1).

If yes:

(a) What host system are you using?

(b) Did you diverge from the directions in the book?

If no:

(a) Can someone out there suggest a known valid combination?

I anticipate needing ssh, some web-server and snmp as application requirements, so I figured it would be prudent to get the tool-chain working with glibc as opposed to uClibc.

-- Brian

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I don't know about that book and your specific glibc version,
but earlier versions of glibc (2.1.3) needed a patch to correctly
support powerpc processors with 16-byte cachelines like the 4xx- and
8xx-series.

I've built several cross compilers (for ppc) from scratch for use on
x86-based machines using gcc-2.95.3 and glibc-2.1.3. I have tested
several binutils versions, don't remember all right now, but I think
binutils-2.11.2 worked out ok except for some strip command line problems.

And yes, the toolchain was used with mpc8xx processors.

/ magnus

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 07:11:39 -0700
brian.auld@adic.com wrote:

Hello,

Using Karim's new book "Building Embedded Linux Systems", has anyone out there successfully built an x86(host) --> ppc(tgt) tool chain using the versions stipulated in the book (gcc 2.95.3, binutils: 2.10.1, glibc, 2.2.1).

If yes:

(a) What host system are you using?

(b) Did you diverge from the directions in the book?

If no:

(a) Can someone out there suggest a known valid combination?


I anticipate needing ssh, some web-server and snmp as application requirements, so I figured it would be prudent to get the tool-chain working with glibc as opposed to uClibc.

-- Brian

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At 10:05 AM 6/6/2003, Magnus Damm wrote:

but earlier versions of glibc (2.1.3) needed a patch to correctly
support powerpc processors with 16-byte cachelines like the 4xx- and
8xx-series.

Small correction, 405EP, 405GP, 405GPr (and probably all other 405 based
CPUs),
440GP, 440GX have _32_ byte cacheline.

Eugene.


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