[Clfs-dev] GIT-0.0.1-20120922-arm: Tracker Request

[Andrew Bradford]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:35:23 -0800
Kirk Terrell <knjterrell at mybluelight.com> wrote:

> While trying to create arm system with big-endian I was unable to
> finish compiling uClibc. I've attached the error log. In reviewing
> the ARM book versus the MIPS book I notice that the gcc compilation
> does not call out the endianness. I haven't had a chance to verify
> that adding the compilation option --with-endian=${CLFS_ENDIAN}
> addresses the issue.

Is it worth keeping ARM big endian around in the embedded book?

If not, then that easily begs the question of if it's worth keeping the
wrt "arch" around since it's just MIPS but with a few tweaks to support
the WRT routers.

I don't want to rip out useful things, but due to low developer time
for the embedded book, reducing the number of configurations / archs
supported seems like a reasonable thing to do.  Based on memory, most
of the people building the embedded book are doing so on ARM little
endian armv5 or armv7-a with a few here and there doing x86 or MIPS.

What do you, and the list, think?

-Andrew