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Re: [ts-7000] Re: anyone working with arm eabi port of debian

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: anyone working with arm eabi port of debian
From: Christopher Friedt <>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:42:56 +0200
I don't really have a major use right now for floating point with the TS 
boards, but if I did then I would certainly be testing the eabi out. I 
think that there may still be a few bugs in uclibc and some other 
things. Newer versions of Gcc are apparently fairly foolproof with eabi 
from what I hear, but I couldn't suggest anything past using the debian 
distro.

You'll definitely have to use a more recent 2.6 kernel. See my other 
posts on the list for adding yaffs support from CVS (although it's 
really straight forward). Charlie has already provided a couple of 
patches and so has Breton Saunders.

I'm currently using a 2.6.20.6 kernel, but I hear that 2.6.21 is out (?)

~/Chris

charliem_1216 wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> --- In  Petr Stetiar <> wrote:
>> I think, that there is EABI for ep93xx available in OpenEmbedded
> distribution.
>> I don't know if EABI is available in stock TS's kernels(I don't use
> them), but
>> in 2.6 kernel it's. 
> 
> No, it's not in any 2.4 kernels AFAIK, but it is in 2.6.18 and later.
>   Note there are two options when configuring the kernel.  I forget
> the exact wording, but basically you can have "eabi with oabi
> compatability" or "all eabi".  Choose the first when you are making
> the transition in your distro and may have some oabi binaries around
> still.  Choose the latter when you've made the switch.  You need the
> "all eabi" to get the full speed benefits; "oabi compatability" in the
> kernel carries a slight speed penalty.
> 
>> I've also seen 'EABI' mentioned in post on linux-cirrus
>> mailing list week or two ago, where Brian Austin/Cirrus announced
> new Cirrus's
>> Linux 2.6 kernel and toolchain.
> 
> I saw that, but have not tested any of it.  I would prefer to use
> upstream kernels if possible, and for a toolchain I've had good luck
> with codesourcery (2006Q3, I think).
> 
> To answer your $subject, yes, I've used Lennert's (pre)debian rootfs
> and packages, but only via NFSroot.  I've not used any of the more
> recent debian ports or installers.
> 
> Regards, ........ Charlie
> 
> 


 
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