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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:23:31 +0530
From:      "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        PMahan@adaranet.com, freebsd-mips@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is the MIPS kernel buildable from HEAD?
Message-ID:  <AANLkTiksN7YT9aTJdEXw-bADi7RXK6BEpgBbrHiR_bdj@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:59 AM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <AANLkTi=3DFZrdjE0KoUHvOiB9hyz5ZDWepS9743ghAw9SU@mail.gmail.c=
om>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0"Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> write=
s:
> : On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:43 AM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> : > In message: <32AB5C9615CC494997D9ABB1DB12783C024C875590@SJ-EXCH-1.ada=
ranet.com>
> : > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Patrick Mahan <PMahan@adaranet.com> writes:
> : > : Is it possible to build the MIPS kernel from HEAD? =A0Or is the
> : > : current development still external to the HEAD branch?
> : >
> : > Yes. =A0The tip of head is where the mips action is these days. =A0Th=
ere
> : > is no external development branch.
> : >
> : > There is one issue, however. =A0If you are building for one of the
> : > 64-bit processors a 64-bit kernel, then the required userland won't
> : > build. =A0There's still issues that need to be sorted out...
> :
> : The 64-bit userland builds for me with =A0-DWITHOUT_CDDL -DWITHOUT_USB
> : -DWITHOUT_BLUETOOTH =A0-DWITHOUT_RESCUE - are you referring to these, o=
r
> : are there other issues?
>
> I can do a buildworld now without any of these flags. =A0I don't know
> what the bluetooth issue is/was, but it doesn't kill the build. =A0I

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.

JC.



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