Re: [Etherboot-developers] Porting stories...

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Yannis Mitsos <gm...@te...> writes:

> Dear all,
> 
> In the near-past I have attempted to port Etherboot (ver. 5.0.8) for a RISC
> processor (Hyperstone E132-XS) to leverage our project that target at porting
> uClinux to the aforementioned processor. Although the effort was succesful, it
> was "brutal" port that could not be merged with the CVS sources.
> 
> Now, I am working back on this issue. I am doing pretty well. Actually, the
> whole think is working. I have to remind you that our toolchain is GNU
> gcc-2.95.2 and the object format is COFF. The coff-loader is prety much like the
> 
> ELF loader and it is working.
> Still, I have some problems with my compiler with the generic declerations. For
> example, the pre-processor complains with an error with the following two lines:
> 
> 
> typedef sector_t (*os_download_t)(unsigned char *data, unsigned int len, int
> eof);
> static inline os_dowload_t coff_probe(unsigned char *data, unsigned int len)

Is it possible you don't have a uint64_t? Or for some other reason your
sector_t has problems?

> I will try to resolve all those small issues. I have to admit with the current
> structure the poritng to a new architecture is a straight-forward process
> ... Great work ...

Thanks. I'm glad you appreciate it.

Eric