Re: RPX Lite kernel

[Scott Wood <scott@broadlink.com>]

Thanks...  mkdep was taking over all my CPU/RAM on my machine, but it worked fine on another RedHat-5.2 box.  Now all I need is a
cross-compiler... any idea where I can get ppc-linux-gcc?

Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> 
> Scott Wood wrote:
> > I'd still like to know if anyone has a working 2.2 kernel on the RPX Lite...  I'd compile one myself, but my B&W G3 LinuxPPC box
> > is getting its guts replaced and I've heard horror stories about cross-compling the kernel...
> 
> Well, I've heard horror stories about compiling "hello world" too,
> but that doesn't mean it's particularly complicated. ;)
> 
> If "cross-compiling" from PPC I can't see why you should need to do
> anything else than configure the kernel properly.
> And this diff is all that is needed to cross-compile from ix86 Linux:
> 
> diff -urN linux-2.2.10.orig/Makefile embedded-2.2.10/Makefile
> --- linux-2.2.10.orig/Makefile  Sat May 29 03:10:19 1999
> +++ embedded-2.2.10/Makefile    Tue Jul  6 18:32:40 1999
> @@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
>  SUBLEVEL = 10
>  EXTRAVERSION =
> 
> -ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ -e s/arm.*/arm/ -e s/sa110/arm/)
> +ARCH := ppc
> +#ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ -e s/arm.*/arm/ -e s/sa110/arm/)
> 
>  .EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES:
> 
> @@ -18,7 +19,7 @@
>  HOSTCC         =gcc
>  HOSTCFLAGS     =-Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
> 
> -CROSS_COMPILE  =
> +CROSS_COMPILE  = ppc-linux-
> 
>  AS     =$(CROSS_COMPILE)as
>  LD     =$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld
> 
> //Marcus
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>         Marcus Sundberg        | http://www.stacken.kth.se/~mackan/
>  Royal Institute of Technology |       Phone: +46 707 295404
>        Stockholm, Sweden       |   E-Mail: mackan@stacken.kth.se
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|     Scott Wood      |   Systems  Engineer  |
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