Re: Renesas SH4 support in emdebian

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>]

Hi,

2010/2/16 Hector Oron <hector.oron@gmail.com>:
> Hello Nobuhiro,
>
> 2010/2/15 Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@debian.org>:
>>>> Where should I begin work with?
>>>> I want to support cross compiler, Emdebian Crush and Emdebian Grip and
>>>> documents.
>>>
>>> I think you should be able to build a SH cross compiler with current
>>> ('lenny') approach. Since I am still working for the unstable cross
>>> compiler, it should also be able to support such architecture, but
>>> work is not ready yet.
>>>
>> Cross compiler of unstable is working now[0]. But stable(lenny) is not.
>> Because lenny does not support sh4.
>> And I think that it is difficult for sh4 to support lenny now.
>
> Those are good news. I think, correct me if I am wrong, cross compiler
> you have built it is a bare metal compiler. In case you need a
> compiler linked against eglibc, you can try to do it the way it is
> explained at:
>
>  http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianToolchain#Buildyourownfromsources
>
> A long time ago I tested it, it was working fine for me, I can't
> remember if by that time sh* architectures were in dpkg tables or I
> had to add them locally.
>
> I am short of time to work on this, but let me know if you have any
> issues or if I can help either way.
>
I noticed it being slightly different from how to make of my cross compiler.
I intend to rebuild  toolchain.

Thank you.

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

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