Project Idea

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Tue Aug 29 17:50:52 PDT 2017


On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 20:16 -0400, Douglas Paul wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 11:43:51AM -0500, Ralph Siemsen wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 09:59:33PM -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> > > 
> > > Lately, I've been thinking about finally doing something from my
> > > NetWinder TODO list of _eleven_ years ago next month. What you
> already
> > > did with Gentoo and gcc was certainly on it, so it would be great
> if you
> > > could post that somewhere.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what Douglas did for Gentoo, but I did similar
> experiment
> > back in late 2015. I was able to cross-compile a working image using
> > gcc-4.8. It took some effort, because many spots needed to be
> patched
> > to use the linker option "--fix-v4bx". For the kernel I used 3.18.6.
> 
> Sorry for taking so long, I just noticed this mail. In fact, it looks
> like
> what I ended up doing was basically the same thing, and the patch was
> not
> very complicated at all. I tracked down my original patch, and it was
> against the 4.4 series of GCC. I believe I ended up configuring for
> "armv4l-softfloat-linux-gnueabi". Here is the patch:

Hmm, does this insert the v4bx fix unconditionally, or only with
-mcpu/-mtune/-march?




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