[Clfs-support] clfs-embedded on beagle?

[George Boudreau]

b-vol wrote:
> On Saturday 18 October 2008 07:17:33 pm George Boudreau wrote:
>> b-vol wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I have downloaded the latest version of clfs-embedded.
>>> I have an  interest in trying it on the beagle board:
>>> http://beagleboard.org/
>>>
>>> Has anyone on this list attempted this build and if so what has been the
>>> results?
>>    There are a number of packages that need to be updated to give
>> CLFSembedded half a chance.
>>
>>   You will need the svn versions of Busybox and uClibc.
>>   Update the kernel to an omap.git to get Beagleboard support. 2.6.27.1
>> is not enough.
>>   Use kernel headers install (see latest CLFS)
>>   Update binutils to 2.18
>>   Update gcc to 4.3.1 to pick up the Beagleboard processor.
>>   Add u-boot_beagle_revb.tar.gz (necessary to create the kernel uImage).
>>
>>   All the package updates require significant changes to the build code.
>>   Oh, and a _thousand patches_ to the above packages.  :-)
>>
>>   My CV for the above comments::
>>   I have a beagleboard (great toy, lots of potential)
>>   I have not been able to get CLFSEmbedded to build due to all the
>> changes necessary.
>>
>>   George
>>
>>> Comments are welcomed.
>>>
>>> sincerely
>>> b-vol
> 
> Dear George  
>  
> Many thanks for your reply
> 
> you wrote
>> You will need the svn versions of Busybox and uClibc
> I am goint to use busybox-1.12.1 (released just a few days ago) and 
> uClibc-0.9.30-rc2 (to be released soon) should these not be sufficient and if 
> not what is so sopecial about the   stuff in svn?
> 
   busybox 1.12.1 has a few new patches. Apply them or use the svn.
   uClibc-0.9.30-rc2 is fine. I use snapshots to catch any bug fixes. It
took 17 months for them to generate this release and a lot of work, bug
fixes/improvements, was done in the mean time.

> you wrote
>> Update the kernel to an omap.git to get Beagleboard support. 2.6.27.1
> I am going to linux- 2.6.27.2
> do I still need to do the omap.git  kernel update? 
> 
   The BeagleBoard is very new and support for the hardware improves
daily. I do not know how fast new code is being pushed upstream so I
stick with a git kernel

> you wrote
>> Update binutils to 2.18
> do you still needs these patches as per clfs-embedded bamely-
> i)binutils-2.17-posix-1.patch
> ii)binutils-2.17-uclibc-1.patch
> 
   You will need to port these patches to 2.18 and a few beagleboard
specific ones.
> =================================
> on gcc:
> you als wrote :
>> Update gcc to 4.3.1 to pick up the Beagleboard processor.
>  with gcc4.3.1 do I still need the clfs-embeded patches namely?
> a)gcc-4.1.2-posix-1.patch
> b)gcc-4.1.2-uclibc-1.patch
> c) gcc-4.1.2-cross_search_paths-1.patch
> 
   Use gcc 4.3.2  I found 49 patches that had to be applied to gcc-4.3.2
> =======================
> 
> ========================
> you also wrote
>> All the package updates require significant changes to the build code.
>  > Oh, and a _thousand patches_ to the above packages.  :-)
> 
> the borad  decribed at  http://beagleboard.org/
> leads to patches  described here:-  omap patches 2008
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&r=1&b=200810&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&r=1&b=200809&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&r=1&b=200808&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&r=1&b=200807&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&r=1&b=200805&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&r=1&b=200804&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&r=1&b=200803&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&r=1&b=200802&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&r=1&b=200801&w=2
> 
> for this board do  I need to go back early than 2008?
> =================================
> 

   It is easier to use the patches in Openembedded than try to chase
them down by hand. All the patches I use came from Openembedded.

> thaaks again and  I look oreard to your reply  (and input from anyone else on 
> this list).
> 
> bvol
> 
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