docs/CREDITS
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Tue Oct 14 17:42:10 2008 +0000 (2008-10-14)
changeset 929 7c958fb04f28
parent 741 6c5084999910
child 1975 1dfb2713112b
permissions -rw-r--r--
Sample config for e500v2 toolchain

On Tuesday 14 October 2008 17:05:31 Nate Case wrote:
> This is a sample config file for Freescale e500v2 processors (e.g.,
> MPC8548, MPC8572). It uses eglibc (for e500/SPE patches) and a recent
> gcc (4.3.1, for e500v2 DPFP support) and will generate appropriate
> dual-precision floating point instructions by default.
>
> Note: If building a Linux kernel with this toolchain, you will want to
> make sure -mno-spe AND -mspe=no are passed to gcc to prevent SPE
> ABI/instructions from getting into the kernel (which is currently
> unsupported). At this time, the kernel build system only passes
> -mno-spe by default (this should be fixed soon hopefully).
>
> A binutils snapshot is used to fix a bug present in 2.18 preventing
> U-Boot from being compiled (CodeSourcery issue #2297: internal.h
> (ELF_IS_SECTION_IN_SEGMENT): Adjust to cope with segments at the end of
> memory).

Obsoletes the powerpc-unknown-linux-gnuspe sample, so remove it.

/trunk/samples/powerpc-e500v2-linux-gnuspe/crosstool.config | 307 307 0 0 +++++++++++++++++++
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I would like to thank these fine people for making crosstool-NG possible:
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  Dan KEGEL, the original author of crosstool: http://www.kegel.com/
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    Dan was very helpfull and willing to help when I build my first toolchains.
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    I owe him one. Thank you Dan!
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    Some crosstool-NG scripts have code snippets coming almost as-is from the
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    original work by Dan.
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And in order of appearance on the crossgcc ML:
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  Allan CLARK for his investigations on building toolchains on MacOS-X.
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    Allan made extensive tests of the first alpha of crosstool-NG on his
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    MacOS-X, and unveiled some bash-2.05 weirdness.
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  Enrico WEIGELT
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    - some improvements to the build procedure
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    - cxa_atexit disabling for C libraries not supporting it (old uClibc)
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    - misc suggestions (restartable build, ...)
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    - get rid of some bashisms in ./configure
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    - contributed OpenRISC or32 support
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  Robert P. J. DAY:
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    - some small improvements to the configurator, misc prompting glitches
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    - 'sanitised' patches for binutils-2.17
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    - patches for glibc-2.5
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    - misc patches, typos and eye candy
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    - too many to list any more!
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  Al Stone:
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    - initial ia64 support
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    - some cosmetics
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  Szilveszter Ordog:
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    - a uClibc floating point fix
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    - initial support for ARM EABI
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  Mark Jonas:
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    - initiated Super-H port
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  Michael Abbott:
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    - make it build with ancient findutils
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  Willy Tarreau:
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    - a patch to glibc to build on 'ancient' shells
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    - reported mis-use of $CT_CC_NATIVE
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  Matthias Kaehlcke:
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    - fix building glibc-2.7 (and 2.6.1) with newer kernels
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  Daniel Dittmann:
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    - PowerPC support
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  Ioannis E. Venetis:
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    - preliminary Alpha support
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    - intense gcc-4.3 brainstorming
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  Thomas Jourdan:
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    - intense gcc-4.3 brainstorming
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    - eglibc support
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  Many others have contributed, either in form of patches, suggestions,
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  comments, or testing... Thank you to all of you!
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Special dedication to the buildroot people for maintaining a set of patches I
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happily and shamelessly vampirise from time to time... :-)
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More to come as they help.