Re: Renesas SH4 support in emdebian
Dear, Neil.
I'm sorry for this late reply. And thank for your comments.
2010/1/27 Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:50:46 +0900
> Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> I am now trying to run Debian on Renesas SH(sh4)[0] CPU and most
>> packages could build.
>
>> This CPU[0] is useing on Embeded system.
>> I want to support Renesas SH4 in emdebian.
>>
>> Where should I begin work with?
>> I want to support cross compiler, Emdebian Crush and Emdebian Grip and
>> documents.
>
> 1. Emdebian Crush will have to wait - there is no work on Crush for any
> architecture at the moment, the build system is in flux. Many of the
> existing packages won't build successfully for existing architectures
> (like armel), trying to build them for a new architecture is only going
> to be harder. It's stalled by a lack of developer time, need for
> multiarch support (or some intermediate process) and a method for
> handling the package changes needed within Crush by renaming the main
> binary package.
I see.
>
> 2. Emdebian Grip does not build packages, it adapts existing
> Debian packages - where have the natively built packages been put?
>
> I can find some packages at:
> http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian-ports/
>
> Unfortunately, that mirror uses what appears to be a non-standard
> filesystem for the archive itself. Instead of pool/ containing files of
> all architectures, it is split into pool-sh4/ and many others. There are
> various areas where '/pool/' is assumed and hard-coded in various
> scripts and programs that handle genuine Debian package archives. (I'm
> not just talking about apt, this is more about packages like reprepro
> which need to be able to retrieve the packages themselves.)
>
> The default setup made by emdebian-grip-server is going to need to be
> adapted by hand - the update rules for the filter repository will need
> to specify two update rules. One for the sh4 packages (debian-ports) and
> one for the source packages (debian). I've tested locally, it does work.
>
> $ cat conf/distributions
> Origin: Debian
> Label: Emdebian-unstable
> Suite: unstable
> Codename: sid
> Version: 1.0
> Architectures: sh4 source
> Components: main
> UDebComponents: main
> Description: Emdebian unstable package repository
> Update: test test-official
>
> $ cat conf/updates
> Name: test
> Method: http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian-ports/
> Suite: unstable
> Components: main
> Architectures: sh4
> FilterList: deinstall pkglist
> VerifyRelease: blindtrust
>
> Name: test-official
> Method: http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/
> Suite: unstable
> Components: main
> Architectures: source
> FilterList: deinstall pkglist
> VerifyRelease: blindtrust
>
> (You probably don't want to use blindtrust on a public mirror and you
> probably want to rename the two update stanzas to something
> meaningful by changing the Name: and put those sensible names in the
> Update: rule in conf/distributions. See reprepro (1) for more info on
> the content of these files.)
>
> So, the process is:
>
> $ cd /your/chosen/path
> $ mkdir -p filter/conf
>
> Create and edit the two files above in filter/conf:
>
> $ ls filter/conf
> distributions updates
>
> let em_autogrip set up the first package:
>
> $ em_autogrip -b /your/chosen/path
>
> then add your first package:
>
> $ em_autogrip -b /your/chosen/path -s apt
>
> Once that's done, you could replace filter/conf/pkglist with the
> attached file and update the filter repository:
>
> $ reprepro --noskipold -b /your/chosen/path/filter -v update
>
> Then possibly build the entire sh4 Grip archive (a lot smaller than a
> full Debian archive because it's only 2,000 packages, not 20,000) -
> depending on your available free space and internet connection
> bandwidth/speed. It can take several hours to 'grip' the entire archive
> although it might be quicker, you're only processing a single
> architecture, not 6 as in all my tests.
>
> $ em_autogrip -b /your/chosen/path
>
> (there are a few bugs in that setup stage, you may need to do some
> tweaking, watch for duplicate 'source' listings in the various
> Architecture fields in each conf/distributions file and the one in
> locale/ may have a spurious empty line that needs to be removed.)
>
> Can you test the package list in the attached file (the current filter
> list for Emdebian Grip) and identify packages that are not yet built on
> sh4?
OK, I contact it again if I can confirm it.
>
> (The local test repository would only be for your own use - if it
> doesn't work, just test the pkglist file. However, a bug report would
> be handy so that I don't forget to fix the bugs in the setup_repos
> function.)
>
> The 'grip' repository populated by em_autogrip would be standard - one
> pool/ containing everything.
>
> Depending on the level of buildd support, it is possible that Emdebian
> Grip 2.0 *might* be able to release with official sh4 support,
> directly from www.emdebian.org/grip/.
>
> I need to document all this and revise the docs/ part of the Emdebian
> website to cover it but I don't have a lot of time for that sort of
> thing at the moment (moving house). If you could document how things go
> for you on the Debian wiki, it would make it easier for me to update the
> main website later.
>
OK. I will check.
Best regards,
Nobuhiro
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Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
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