From owner-freebsd-ppc Mon Apr 17 8:30:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A47437B713 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:30:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA17339; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:30:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:30:03 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Michael Chin-Yuan Wu Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The inital steps... In-Reply-To: <009401bfa87e$ff8dec20$d60b1b18@austin.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message