From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id BAA11640; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 01:04:23 -0700 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id BAA27816 for linux-list; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 01:03:38 -0700 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id BAA27792 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 01:03:34 -0700 Received: from alles.intern.julia.de (loehnberg1.core.julia.de [194.221.49.2]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id BAA08682 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 01:03:30 -0700 Received: from kernel.panic.julia.de (kernel.panic.julia.de [194.221.49.153]) by alles.intern.julia.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA01710; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:02:25 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle Received: (from ralf@localhost) by kernel.panic.julia.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA08771; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:01:33 +0200 Message-Id: <199704100701.JAA08771@kernel.panic.julia.de> Subject: Re: all in the family To: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu (David S. Miller) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:01:33 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: shaver@neon.ingenia.ca, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <199704100226.WAA01960@jenolan.caipgeneral> from "David S. Miller" at Apr 9, 97 10:26:18 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > Looks like I may be getting a machine here to see if we can migrate > some of our non-Oracle machines to Linux/SPARC. > > Anyone know if the emulation is up to hosting the Linux/Indy > cross-compiler? > > It should be straight forward, 32-bit to 32-bit crosses under gcc work > flawlessly right out of the box for everything I've ever tried. It's > when you cross from 32-bit to 64-bit that you may hit a bug or two. I've got the necessary patches to make the binutils and GCC work as Linux/Alpha -> Linux/MIPS crosscompiler. Mike, if you need them remind me to send them if you need them. > In related news, we'll then have Linux running on 5 architectures > in the same room (Intel, Alpha, SPARC, ELKS, Indy). Maybe I'll > steal the PowerMac too... =) > > ELKS, that is cheating ;-) :-) Ralf From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Ralf Baechle Message-ID: <199704100701.JAA08771@kernel.panic.julia.de> Subject: Re: all in the family Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:01:33 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199704100226.WAA01960@jenolan.caipgeneral> from "David S. Miller" at Apr 9, 97 10:26:18 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: "David S. Miller" Cc: shaver@neon.ingenia.ca, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19970410070133.bsFQ6h5bAOaOqLiH8Z8aUYmZoezc61r-jGzoiYZf_sw@z> > Looks like I may be getting a machine here to see if we can migrate > some of our non-Oracle machines to Linux/SPARC. > > Anyone know if the emulation is up to hosting the Linux/Indy > cross-compiler? > > It should be straight forward, 32-bit to 32-bit crosses under gcc work > flawlessly right out of the box for everything I've ever tried. It's > when you cross from 32-bit to 64-bit that you may hit a bug or two. I've got the necessary patches to make the binutils and GCC work as Linux/Alpha -> Linux/MIPS crosscompiler. Mike, if you need them remind me to send them if you need them. > In related news, we'll then have Linux running on 5 architectures > in the same room (Intel, Alpha, SPARC, ELKS, Indy). Maybe I'll > steal the PowerMac too... =) > > ELKS, that is cheating ;-) :-) Ralf