[Re: First RSPRO deployed!] flash utility mkfwimage and RSPRO boot question

[Adrian Chadd]

*urge* write a blog post about this please. :-)



Adrian

On 30 November 2010 23:16, Milan Obuch <freebsd-mips at dino.sk> wrote:
> On Monday 29 November 2010 18:13:16 Warner Losh wrote:
>> On 11/26/2010 11:35, Milan Obuch wrote:
>> > On Friday 26 November 2010 17:59:05 Warner Losh wrote:
>> >> On 11/26/2010 08:54, Milan Obuch wrote:
>> >>> On Thursday 25 November 2010 12:12:06 Luiz Otavio O Souza wrote:
>> > [ snip]
>> >
>> >>>> Building world works with CPUTYPE=mips32 and for ports, add the
>> >>>> following line to /etc/make.conf:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=mips32
>> >>>
>> >>> Hmm, I put just TARGET_ARCH=mipseb into /etc/make.conf and compiled
>> >>> almost all world (accidentally broken just before end, but that's a
>> >>> pilot error in this case) and sysutils/screen port compiled and run
>> >>> with no CPUTYPE nor CFLAGS definition.
>> >>>
>> >>> That should not be read as better from any side, but surely simpler :)
>> >>> Maybe even TARGET_ARCH should be known from running kernel, this would
>> >>> be similar how native build works on both i386 and amd64 platforms.
>> >>> Now, with screen in place I am going to test buildworld again (with
>> >>> some WITHOUT_XXX=YES in /etc/make.conf) to verify native builds...
>> >>> they are slowish here, which is expected, but seems to work, which is
>> >>> great.
>> >>
>> >> what does uname -a tell you?
>> >
>> > FreeBSD argo.dino.sk 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #3: Wed Nov 24
>> > 10:16:14 CET 2010
>> > root at wind.dino.sk:/tmp/rspro/obj/mips.mipseb/data/src9/sys/RSPRO mips
>> >
>> > Currently running world and kernel is from cross build on i386 host.
>> >
>> > Native buildworld just ended, I am going to try native buildkernel... for
>> > that I must apply some patches (already published on this list).
>>
>> Juli just committed some patches to make this better.  I was going to do
>> it, but she got impatient waiting for my overbooked schedule to free up...
>>
>> Warner
>
> Well, over weekend it did not work, now it compiles.
>
> There is a problem, however.
>
> With no /etc/make.conf (TARGET nor TARGET_ARCH defined) both buildworld and
> buildkernel operation fails complaining about 'unknown target mips:mips'.
> After defining TARGET_ARCH=mipseb make buildworld succeeds, but this is not
> actually native buildworld - nake installworld complains about unknown target
> mips:mips as well, when TARGET_ARCH is defined, make errors with 'ERROR:
> Please set DESTDIR!' - so actually this is considered cross build.
>
> MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX is set to /usr/obj/mips.mipseb and this again indicates it is
> a cross-build. So I think for mips architecture we need to set TARGET_ARCH
> internally, somehow - after all, maybe endianness should be visible in output
> of uname -someswitch...
> Maybe uname -m or uname -p should be altered to output mipsel/mipseb... I
> think I saw it once, but now they are both mips...
>
> Regards,
> Milan
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