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From: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
To: Lars Weiler <pylon@g.o>
Cc: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>, gentoo-ppc-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] bootstrapped my iBook with our future toolchain
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:28:28
Message-Id: AA871A6C-F74A-11D8-812E-000D93283962@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-ppc-dev] bootstrapped my iBook with our future toolchain by Lars Weiler
1 On 26 Aug 2004, at 03:20, Lars Weiler wrote:
2
3 > Hi team,
4 >
5 > as I have a new harddisk now, I needed to bootstrap my
6 > iBook. For this session I chose our future toolchain with
7 >
8 > * sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.3-r3
9 > * sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1 (though we want to test
10 > the 20040808)
11 > * sys-devel/gcc-3.4.1-r2
12
13 I have had good luck with 0808, no apparent problems at all.
14
15 > Furthermore I used the sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.7-r4
16 > so that I could set nptl in the use-flags. udev is also a
17 > testing candidate.
18
19 It has lots of bugs. It would be better to use the 2.6.8 headers.
20 Problems I had with 2.6.7-r4:
21
22 - gpm
23 - xfce4-netload
24
25 didn't compile. Plasmaroo ironed these bugs out in 2.6.8.
26
27 > Quite all went well beside kbd and powermac-tools. kbd
28 > compiled only with linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 and
29 > powermac-tools only with the 2.6.7-version. Later on I
30 > investigated that only the current ~ppc mac-fdisk compiles
31 > with linux26-headers.
32 >
33 > Then I found a little problem in the kernel-config. As long
34 > as you don't have BLK_DEV_IDEDMA, IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO and
35 > BLK_DEV_ADMA set, you can't compile pmac.c. The problem is,
36 > that the first three options are not a dependency to the
37 > separated PMAC-(uninorth-)options.
38 >
39 > I hope that these information could help our
40 > basesystem- and kernel-guys ;-)
41 >
42 > Regards, Lars
43
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