Re: Kernel Cross Compiling

[Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>]

Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>>Wouldn't it be easier to use http://kegel.com/crosstool
>>which already builds good toolchains for just about every
>>CPU type?
> 
> 
> yeah Dan, I thought about that, and I guess I'll
> give that _another_ try soon, the reason I didn't
> choose that path, simply was, that I didn't want
> to compile the (g)libc, because I really do not 
> need it at all (kernel does not use/require that)
> and I didn't want to deal with that one too ...

Makes sense.  Simpler is better.

> btw, what archs did you verify? didn't find a 
> 'success' list or something like that, probably
> missed it somehow, anyway, currently I managed
> to compile binutils and gcc for:
> 
>  alpha, arm, cris, hppa/64, i386, ia64, m68k,
>  mips/64, ppc/64, s390, sh/4, sparc/64, v850,
>  x86_64 ...

I think I got most of those built except for hppa, ppc/64,
sparc/64, and v850.  (I've only run the gcc regression
tests on ppc405, ppc750, and sh4 so far, but hope to test more
later.)
Also, IBM seems to be using a variant of my script for ppc64.
- Dan

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