From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:59:21 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] arch/powerpc: add fsl e5500 and e6500 support In-Reply-To: <20141118183139.GO2196@tarshish> References: <1416266092-6465-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <1416266092-6465-2-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <546B5779.9010708@zacarias.com.ar> <20141118162020.02921a54@free-electrons.com> <546B7395.4040804@zacarias.com.ar> <20141118175637.49a03275@free-electrons.com> <20141118183139.GO2196@tarshish> Message-ID: <20141118215921.50bf97f1@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com