Re: [gentoo-embedded] quilt on little endian arm-softfloat-linux-gnu

[Anish Patel]

Jan Girlich wrote:
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> Mike Frysinger schrieb:
>> On Wednesday 12 July 2006 18:39, Jan Girlich wrote:
>>> At least I (the Makefile) used quilt to compile my kernel
>>> which doesn't want to boot properly.
>> try doing:
>> svn co http://svn.nslu2-linux.org/svnroot/kernel
>> then run `make` in the trunk to build up a kernel
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> This is exactly what I did. But this Makefile needs quilt. After
> emerging quilt on my desktop this is fine.
>
> The next problem was -mabi=apcs-gnu which is used but not supported by
> gcc-3.4.6. Unfortunately I couldn't find out much about what this flag
> does and means and so on, so I just commented it out and compiled the
> kernel with `make CFLAGS_ETC=`
> This works so far. But at the end there are a lot of warnings about
> ixp400_eth.ko like these:
> WARNING: "ixEthAccPortRxFreeReplenish"
> [/root/kernel/trunk/ixp400_eth/ixp400_eth.ko] undefined!
> WARNING: "ixOsalMbufFree" [/root/kernel/trunk/ixp400_eth/ixp400_eth.ko]
> undefined!
> WARNING: "ixOsalMbufAlloc" [/root/kernel/trunk/ixp400_eth/ixp400_eth.ko]
> undefined!
> WARNING: "ixOsalIrqUnlock" [/root/kernel/trunk/ixp400_eth/ixp400_eth.ko]
> undefined!
> WARNING: "ixOsalIrqLock" [/root/kernel/trunk/ixp400_eth/ixp400_eth.ko]
> undefined!
do you have the intel CSR crap installed? you need those to properly 
build the ethernet module, you'll still get these warning as those 
symbols are defined in the ixp400.ko that is built from intels CSR's.

>>> No (serial-)console or similar, so
>>> I just can guess what's wrong... :(
>> a lot saner on your nerves if you boot up one of the stock firmwares first,
>> develop Gentoo in a chroot, and then move your system over to that once you
>> know it's working

is there not a place to add a serial port on the NSLU2?  i believe there 
is, check the nslu2 website.
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