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From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, jsun@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [patch] swarm-cs4297a: Support little-endian configuration
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:55:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040405105535.D13322@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0404051457010.31851@jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:01:19PM +0200

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:01:19PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> 
> > Are you using their boot loader (sibyl), and did you notice it has
> > problems in little-endian?  (IF so, do you have patches?  ;-)  Also,
> > have you been able to compile sibyl against a normal e2fslibs rather
> > than their custom version?
> 
>  I boot kernels directly (a bit dissatisfied with no ELF64 support in CFE,
> but that can be fixed, I suppose) over the network, so I can't help you
> with your problems, sorry.
>

I have been using objcopy to convert ELF64 to ELF32 and then boot through 
CFE (suggested by Drow).  This seems to be working fine.

I have also used a LE version sibyl before and did not notice any problem.
I think that version is a binary from broadcom.

Jun

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-05 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-05 11:09 [patch] swarm-cs4297a: Support little-endian configuration Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-05 12:54 ` Martin Michlmayr
2004-04-05 13:01   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-05 17:55     ` Jun Sun [this message]
2004-04-05 18:12       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-05 18:28         ` Mitch Lichtenberg
2004-04-06 13:15           ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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