From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com (e35.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.153]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e35.co.us.ibm.com", Issuer "Equifax" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B80CDDEE2 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:58:11 +1000 (EST) Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l7LCvwXU011967 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:57:58 -0400 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.5) with ESMTP id l7LCvvrg218334 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:57:57 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l7LCvvlC016605 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:57:57 -0600 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:57:56 -0500 From: Josh Boyer To: "Stelios Koroneos" Subject: Re: Xilinx Virtex4 FX PPC Message-ID: <20070821075756.6ca873d0@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1187625654.6336.28.camel@PisteOff> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:52:35 +0300 "Stelios Koroneos" wrote: > > Question 1: > > Do I need a special glibc for the Xilinx PPC 405???? > > FYI we are at the last stage of implementing OpenEmbedded support for the > Xilinx ml403 (and hopefully other Xilinx boards in the near future) Cool. > It also handles the EDK header copying procedure "automagically" i.e you > point to your EDK project dir and pulls the file(s) it needs for the kernel. > We will be working to "automate" the generation of ACE files also, since OE > generates a full image (kernel+fs) and not just the toolchain. > Currently toolchain is gcc 4.1.1 with glibc 2.5 and/or uclibc 0.9.28. > There is some work done by other OE developers to get eglibc going (omap > works according to the latest info i have) > > OpenEmbedded supports a number of ppc targets currently walnut > (405),sequoia(440e),efika(603e) just to mention a few > > I will be speaking at the Power.org dev conference about OE and power > architecure so if anyone will be there and wishes to get some knowledge > about OE in "advance" , feel free to drop me a mail, as we will releasing a > beta of our OE based distro soon. I'm hoping to attend as well. Should be interesting. josh