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Date:      Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:30:03 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Michael Chin-Yuan Wu <keichii@bsdconspiracy.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The inital steps...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000417172306.74116M-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <009401bfa87e$ff8dec20$d60b1b18@austin.rr.com>

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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Michael Chin-Yuan Wu wrote:

> | Not to distrct anybody from anything but:
> | 1) does anybody have the crosscompilation (to netbsd-ppc?)
> |    toolchain ready, esp. in the form of a port?
> 
> Jerry Hicks showed me how to compile an eabi cross compiler.
> However, I still cannot get a *real* compiler for non-embedded
> system.  [/me looks at the g4 and sighs]
> 

A cross compiler is a real compiler. eabi is just the abi (see below) it
is for.

> | 2) who will sacrifice themselves as the port maintainer?
> | 3) what abi will we be using, anyways?
> 
> I hope that we can run FreeBSD on iMAC/embedded PPC/G3/G4 :)
> 

Actually abi (application binary interface) does not depend on the
specific hardware that much. It is rather the way we pass arguments to
functions, which registers are caller/callee saved, which is the stack
pointer, etc. Using what netbsd uses (eabi?) is probably the easiest...

> | 4) any other inital needed steps I forgot about?
> 
> It would be nice if everyone stated their current progress
> so to prevent I-did-what-you-did things.
> 
> | and I do have powerpc-unknown-netbsd tools, but not a
> | proper port
> 
> A shell script would do :)
> 
> 
> --
> keichii@bsdconspiracy.net
> Wide Spread BSD Conspiracy to take over the world OS market
> --
> 

	Sander



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