Uclibc and blackfin

Robin Getz rgetz at blackfin.uclinux.org
Sat Sep 1 07:36:31 UTC 2007


On Tue 21 Aug 2007 07:46, Bernhard Fischer pondered:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 09:41:55AM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
> >I'm in the same kind of situation as Rob, I want to have my *own*
> distribution running on
> >the board. I don't care as much about standard sources as Rob, maybe
> I'm a bit more
> >pragmatic :)
> >
> >The fun starts when you have to build a avr32 gcc and bfin gcc from the
> >same source. An excerpt from the patch that Atmel distributes (for
> >gcc 4.0.2): 
> >
> >- -| avr-* \
> >- -| bfin-* | bs2000-* \
> >+| avr-* | avr32-* \
> >+| bs2000-* \
> >
> >ehm... that's 'special'
> 
> They don't even seem to be able to provide patches that work with all
> the boards they try to sell, so this little gem isn't really
> surprising.. It seems to be natural to have one source tarball (of
> about everything) per board, with conflicting patches (and redundant
> patches).
> Imagine 6000 kernel-source tarballs, each supporting one different
> device..
> *shrug*

I assume that when you say "they" you mean Atmel?

I think that the Blackfin stuff is pretty clean in this regard.

-Robin



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