Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:44:35 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: c.jayachandran@gmail.com Cc: PMahan@adaranet.com, freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is the MIPS kernel buildable from HEAD? Message-ID: <20100826.064435.690091871583279020.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiksN7YT9aTJdEXw-bADi7RXK6BEpgBbrHiR_bdj@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=FZrdjE0KoUHvOiB9hyz5ZDWepS9743ghAw9SU@mail.gmail.com> <20100825.232923.287595822763821210.imp@bsdimp.com> <AANLkTiksN7YT9aTJdEXw-bADi7RXK6BEpgBbrHiR_bdj@mail.gmail.com>
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"Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> writes:
: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:59 AM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
: > In message: <AANLkTi=FZrdjE0KoUHvOiB9hyz5ZDWepS9743ghAw9SU@mail.gmail.com>
: > "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> writes:
: > : On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:43 AM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
: > : > In message: <32AB5C9615CC494997D9ABB1DB12783C024C875590@SJ-EXCH-1.adaranet.com>
: > : > Patrick Mahan <PMahan@adaranet.com> writes:
: > : > : Is it possible to build the MIPS kernel from HEAD? Or is the
: > : > : current development still external to the HEAD branch?
: > : >
: > : > Yes. The tip of head is where the mips action is these days. There
: > : > is no external development branch.
: > : >
: > : > There is one issue, however. If you are building for one of the
: > : > 64-bit processors a 64-bit kernel, then the required userland won't
: > : > build. There's still issues that need to be sorted out...
: > :
: > : The 64-bit userland builds for me with -DWITHOUT_CDDL -DWITHOUT_USB
: > : -DWITHOUT_BLUETOOTH -DWITHOUT_RESCUE - are you referring to these, or
: > : are there other issues?
: >
: > I can do a buildworld now without any of these flags. I don't know
: > what the bluetooth issue is/was, but it doesn't kill the build. I
:
: If I remember correctly, one of those uses ld to convert a binary blob
: to a object file, and that failed because the generated object was not
: of the correct abi. I had thought it it be a toolchain/bfd issue, but
: did not dig further.
Yes. that's right. It generates the wrong ABI.
Warner
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