Re: armel v4t vs v5

2012-05-03 Thread Paul Shirren
On 4/05/12 6:50 AM, Rogério Brito wrote: > BTW, talking about ARM, the very fact that ARMvx != ARMx is confusing to > newcomers and, if I understand it correctly, for Linux, what is important is > the thing with "v" (e.g., ARMv5TEJ). > Yes, it is confusing. The vN refers to the architecture versi

Re: ARM kernel cross compilation issues for iMX53

2012-03-29 Thread Paul Shirren
On 30/03/12 7:43 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Well my i.MX53 QSB has 1GB ram. Given current ARM processors are 32bit, that's 1/4 of the entire address space, so that's not too bad. The Atom netbook next to me is limited to 2G ram. That was the cool thing to have before iPads (per generation

Re: Right way of matching cross compile version?

2012-03-27 Thread Paul Shirren
On 28/03/12 10:23 AM, Mike Thompson wrote: gcc-4.6-arm-linux-gnueabi-base 4.6.1-9ubuntu3cross1.55 Oops. I must have forgotten to caffeinate before I turned the computer on. Multiple ssh sessions into multiple machines with different chroots probably doesn't help either. -- To UNSUB

Right way of matching cross compile version?

2012-03-27 Thread Paul Shirren
I want to have a play with distcc and am sick of compiling my own toolchains already, not that crosstools-ng is difficult but I am really lazy. The default gcc in testing is way ahead of the cross compile packages and I want to match up the versions (and I don't want to go back to earlier gcc v

Re: ARM kernel cross compilation issues for iMX53

2012-03-25 Thread Paul Shirren
On 26/03/12 4:37 AM, Mike Thompson wrote: > I've had no luck either with the 3.2 kernel -- I seem to have most of > it, but ethernet is failing to initialize for me. I've been using the > mainline 3.2 kernel, but my next try is to switch to the Debian 3.2 > kernel. I have been trying mainline an

Re: ARM kernel cross compilation issues for iMX53

2012-03-18 Thread Paul Shirren
On 19/03/12 8:16 AM, Wookey wrote: Some of the other platforms _are_ better (TI panda/beagle for example). Freescale have historically been particularly useless on the mainlining-in-a-useful-way, or telling-anyone-anything fronts. Ouch! So should I cancel the one I have on order? What else ha

Re: ARM kernel cross compilation issues for iMX53

2012-03-16 Thread Paul Shirren
On 17/03/12 9:32 AM, Mike Thompson wrote: Something frustrating is that I can see that Ubuntu kernel was built from the same source tree as the LTIB/BSP sources, but they don't seem to provide the config file for the kernel. I can't tell exactly how they configured the kernel to properly act