RE: P2020 PowerPC Version

Hello Nils,

We are successfully building and running two embedded PowerPC versions: one for an AMCC/Ebony board, and one for Blue Gene. I don't know p2020, but in case it's an embedded PowerPC version, chances are high that you can run it eventually without overly much hassle.

Could you please give us a little bit more information, what exactly is going wrong? What's the compile version and output?

FYI, I'm typically using speedblue cross compilers
http://www.speedblue.org/cross_compilation/

Using built-in specs.
Target: powerpc-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr/powerpc --exec-prefix=/usr/powerpc --target=powerpc-linux --enable-shared --disable-nls --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,objc
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.1 ()

but you can also use self-baken ones from:
http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/crosstool


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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nils Ole Timm
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 19:34
To: [email protected]
Subject: P2020 PowerPC Version

I have been trying to build a pistachio version for power pc recently, specifically a p2020.

But I have ran into some issues and was wondering if someone could give me some further information on this.

The first thing is that I could not build the kernel for powerpc in any configuration with the newest gcc and binutils version. Since I thought that was to be expected I set up a VM with FreeBSD 6.0 and the compatibility pack for 5.0 and tried using the compiler binaries from http://www.l4ka.org/tools/powerpc.php. Unfortunately that didn't work either.

The second thing is that I am not quite sure wether even if I could build the kernel it would run on a p2020 right away or wether I'd have to modify a rather big portion of the source/config files.

I hope someone can give me some or even just any advice on this.

Best regards,
Nils Ole Timm