On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:20:09PM +0000, Martin Guy wrote: > >I started working on a from-scratch EABI port, sponsored by Applied > >Data Systems (http://www.applieddata.net/) Six and a half weeks later, > >there's about 6000 debs built, and so far it all seems to work pretty > >well. > > Great news! We are up to all of the packages necessary to satisfy > debootstrap to make a system close enough to be able build the real > debs,
(Note that all those 6000+ (6571 in the meanwhile) debs in our repo are 'real' debs, built natively from an EABI ARM root filesystem with a packaged gcc and a packaged libc6 and with all build-deps satisfied.) > except for apt and dpkg, perl (dumps core), gcc (Internal Compiler > Error) Those are pretty critical packages. :-) > and glibc (EABI maybe not implemented in etch's glibc, 2.3.6) No, vanilla unpatched glibc 2.3.6 doesn't do EABI. That's pretty well-known. > Oh, and we're building on one or two QEMU systems and some board > from ARM that throws segvs at random The SMP board that Wookey had? I don't really see why you'd use a board like that for building? Two or three n2100s are cheaper and a lot faster than some SMP quad 80MHz board. Also consider that ARM SMP is still experimental and that glibc doesn't yet have proper SMP support (memory barriers) last time I heard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
