ARM cross compilers [WAS: Re: 200+ packages up for grabs]

[Hans de Goede]

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 03:42:43PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> 
>>> The avr chain is in good hands. The arm chain is currently for the gp2x 
>>> handheld only, I would be much interested in discussing and getting advice on 
>>> perhaps making a generic arm embedded chain. Or rather 2 one arm glibc and one 
>>> arm ulibc, perhaps the arm glibc chain can be just Fedora arm?
>> Ok. We should talk ARM. I noticed all you seemed to have was GP2X (which
>> I debated buying but don't have currently). I generally work on ARM/PPC
>> and have a few ARM devices kicking around. Let's ask the wider audience
>> what they think about having a more generic toolchain.
>>
>>> As for bochs you are very welcome to take over maintainership of that I never 
>>> use it, just say the word and I'll release it in pkgdb.
>> I'll mull it over. I don't use it much myself tbh, but it's the kind of
>> thing I'm interested in in general so wouldn't mind. Will let you know.
> 
> I have a set of Fedora -> Fedora cross toolchains, built for ARM (one
> toolchain targeting Fedora/ARM glibc, and one targeting ARM/uClibc), but
> it can also build x86 -> ia64 cross toolchains for example:
> 
> 	http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/cross/latest/
> 
> 
> Wiki page detailing the ARM side of it:
> 
> 	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/CrossToolchain
> 

Nice,

I would like to give this a try to see if it can replace the upper (glibc, 
binutils, gcc) part of the arm-gp2x-linux chain.

The current normal way to build gp2x binaries is to statically link them as the 
glibc included in the gp2x firmware is ancient.

This thus only leaves the kernel as a potential problem, which on the gp2x is 
ancient too: 2.4.25, yes you've read that correct, no typos 2.4.25, so will the 
glibc that is used for Fedora-arm support this kernel?

Would it be possible to add support for this kernel to the Fedora-arm glibc?

Would the person responsible for glibc on Fedora arm be willing to enable 
support for this kernel?

Regards,

Hans