[Buildroot] ARCH=ppc vs powerpc

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Guillaume" == Guillaume Dargaud <dargaud@lpsc.in2p3.fr> writes:

 >>>> Ok. I don't have such an old GCC on my system so I cannot test. Maybe
 >>>> you will have more luck if you select GCC 3.4.6 in buildroot instead?

 Guillaume> OK, big system upgrade, I'm now at gcc 4.1.2 and I seem to
 Guillaume> be able to compile so far (haven't tried the kernel yet).

Great.

 Guillaume> One thing to note: changing options in menuconfig is often
 Guillaume> poorly reflected in the 'makes' underneath and no amount
 Guillaume> of 'make clean' or 'make distclean' can make it
 Guillaume> right. Restarting from a clean svn and copying the .config
 Guillaume> file works though, but that's rather a big waste of time
 Guillaume> like in the case of strip/sstrip/none for instance.

True. I most of the time just do a rm -rf *build* after changing stuff.

 Guillaume> Side question: where to best learn how to make a bootable
 Guillaume> ACE file for the Xilinx architecture from a kernel and, I
 Guillaume> assume, a bootloader ? Or in other words, how do I use the
 Guillaume> U-Boot option of buildroot ?

Hmm, I have never used the systemace stuff, have you checked Grant
Likely's wiki? (http://wiki.secretlab.ca).

For the U-boot stuff, it's probably easier to build it by hand instead
of using buildroot while you are porting it to your board / tweaking
stuff.

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard