From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] arch/powerpc: add fsl e5500 and e6500 support
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:59:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141118215921.50bf97f1@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141118183139.GO2196@tarshish>
Dear Baruch Siach,
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:31:39 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 05:56:37PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > I guess if we go multilib, we should build the C library for both
> > "variants", but then build the rest of the userspace with only one of
> > the two variants, and keep the other variant just to build the special
> > stuff (kernel, bootloader, etc.).
>
> Please forgive my ignorance, but why do we need a C library to build bare
> metal software like the kernel and bootloaders?
We indeed normally don't in theory. It would be interesting to see if we
can actually build things like grub with a bare metal x86 32 bits
toolchain. I fear that in practice things might be a bit more
complicated, but it would be worth testing.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-18 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-17 23:14 [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add Freescale e5500 & e6500 support Gustavo Zacarias
2014-11-17 23:14 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] arch/powerpc: add fsl e5500 and " Gustavo Zacarias
2014-11-18 13:56 ` Matthew Weber
2014-11-18 14:28 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2014-11-18 15:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-18 16:28 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2014-11-18 16:56 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-18 17:00 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2014-11-18 17:04 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-18 18:31 ` Baruch Siach
2014-11-18 20:59 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2014-11-17 23:14 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/gcc: set e5500 and e6500 version mask Gustavo Zacarias
2014-12-07 22:48 ` [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add Freescale e5500 & e6500 support Thomas Petazzoni
2014-12-07 23:17 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2014-12-07 23:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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