Project Idea

[Douglas Paul]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 05:50:52PM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> 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?

If I remember correctly, it's unconditional based on the fact that it's
built for armv4l. But I was building things using cross-compilers through
distcc on other machines, so I can't be 100% sure.

-- 
Douglas Paul