After a long long hayatus, I'm back.
I can cross compile a kernal without dorking with
anything out side of /home/duane (my default user account)
There are defininatly problems with the alpha linux
makefiles that *DO*NOT* let you cross compile.
It is basically broken. I'm going to have to look at
various newer versions of the kernel to see if these
things are fixed or not.
If/when I develop patches - who do I send them to?
Is there a designated "alpha-kernel" person, or do I send
them directly into Linus/Alan?
Found some problems with 'glibc' - sent the 4 line patch in already.
I'm now at the stage where I have "vmlinux" and I
need to do the "make bootpfile" step.
The file 'objstrip' is now the problem it appears
that it is written non-portable (ie: will not work
in a cross compile situation)
I'm getting this message:
tools/objstrip -v /home/duane/ALPHA/dir-kernel/linux/vmlinux vmlinux.nh
tools/objstrip: 0 program headers (forgot to link with -N?)
tools/objstrip: extracting 0x00000000310000-0000000000000000 (at 310000)
tools/objstrip: copying 4291756032 byte from
/home/duane/ALPHA/dir-kernel/linux/vmlinux
read: Invalid argument
Two things look wrong (A) The extract range is dumb looking
(B) 4291756032 is very *WRONG* looking for a file size.
To fix this, I need some information.
I hope you guys can help. If not please point me to who can.
Remember my host is i686, target: alpha.
intel alpha
ie: sizeof(char) = 1 byte, alpha? Assume 1 byte?
sizeof(short) = 2 byte, alpha? Unknown
sizeof(long) = 4 byte, alpha? Unknown
sizeof(long long) = 8 byte, alpha? Unknown
Is alpha big/little endian?
does alpha require/support/care about structure alignment?
what about structure packing?
Anybody have reasonable looking numbers for these things?
I'm only looking for "ball park" numbers - I know mine will
be different to some degree.
-Duane.
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