External toolchain support

[Florian Smeets]

On 29/11/14 16:04, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It is now possible to use an external toolchain to build the kernel and base
> (tested with gcc 4.9.1 and latest binutils)
> 

> make CROSS_TOOLCHAIN=sparc64-gcc -j8 buildkernel
> 

I built a sparc64 kernel on amd64 using sparc64-xtoolchain-gcc
 and was able to boot it successfully.

$ uname -a
FreeBSD v240 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r275267M: Sat Nov 29
22:23:38 CET root at storage:/usr/obj/sparc64.sparc64/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
sparc64
$ sysctl kern.ostype kern.osrelease kern.osrevision kern.compiler_version
kern.ostype: FreeBSD
kern.osrelease: 11.0-CURRENT
kern.osrevision: 199506
kern.compiler_version: gcc version 4.9.1 (FreeBSD Ports Collection for
sparc64)

Florian

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