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Re: [linuxdc-dev] Shared and static

[VINCENT <c-v...@ba...>]

On Sunday 20 April 2003 13:34, you wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2003 21:48, VINCENT C=E9dric wrote:
> > On Friday 18 April 2003 21:22, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > > I have asked this a few times and never really got an answer. Is
> > > anybody else using gcc with glibc as their cross-compiler/C lib
> > > combination. If so, are they able to build shared executibles?
> > >
> > > I don't seem to be able to (using gcc-3.0.4)
> > >
> > > Adrian
> >
> > I've successfully compiled (with Bill's Gatliff "emblindc" environment)
> > as shared and static these apps/libs :
> >
> > gpm-1.20.0 with ncurses support (1.20.1 don't seem to compile
> > correctly...) libpng-1.2.5
> > libtiff-3.6.0-beta (this is the only version that I was able to compile
> > as shared library for linux-sh4)
> > ncurses-5.3 with gpm support.
> > gpm-1.19.6 with ncurses support.
> > zlib-1.1.4
> > libpng-1.0.12 (I can't compile links-2.1pre7 with libpng-1.2.1...)
> > libjpeg.v6b
> > libtiff-v3.5.7
> > links-2.1pre7 with framebuffer, png, tiff, jpeg, javascript and gpm
> > support
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Just to come back on this - and for the avoidance of doubt - when you say
> you compiled them - you were able to run them also? I have no problem
> compiling the apps, it's running them that is difficult - they seg fault.
>
> And if so, could I encourage you to compile mpg123 (as a reference app) a=
nd
> see if you can run that as shared?
>
> What setup are you using for all this? Ie where do you get the libraries
> you link with? (Is it the debian unstable on m17n?)
>
> Slainte
> Adrian

Re: [linuxdc-dev] Shared and static

[Daniel S. <ds...@tr...>]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:46:01PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Sunday 20 April 2003 12:40, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Hmm, maybe the gcc3.2 sh4 relocation types are broken somewhere?
>=20
> Well I am using gcc-3.0.4. I have to say compiler code (like much else :-=
>) is=20
> beyond me...

Oh. Should be fine with 3.2. No idea beyond that, sorry. :\

--=20
Daniel Stone                                     <dstone@trinity.unimelb.ed=
u.au>
Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne

Re: [linuxdc-dev] Shared and static

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

On Sunday 20 April 2003 12:40, Daniel Stone wrote:

> Hmm, maybe the gcc3.2 sh4 relocation types are broken somewhere?

Well I am using gcc-3.0.4. I have to say compiler code (like much else :-=
>) is=20
beyond me...

Re: [linuxdc-dev] Shared and static

[Daniel S. <ds...@tr...>]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:34:59PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> Just to come back on this - and for the avoidance of doubt - when you say=
 you=20
> compiled them - you were able to run them also? I have no problem compili=
ng=20
> the apps, it's running them that is difficult - they seg fault.
>=20
> And if so, could I encourage you to compile mpg123 (as a reference app) a=
nd=20
> see if you can run that as shared?
>=20
> What setup are you using for all this? Ie where do you get the libraries =
you=20
> link with? (Is it the debian unstable on m17n?)

Hmm, maybe the gcc3.2 sh4 relocation types are broken somewhere?
=09
--=20
Daniel Stone                                     <dstone@trinity.unimelb.ed=
u.au>
Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne

Re: [linuxdc-dev] Shared and static

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

On Friday 18 April 2003 21:48, VINCENT C=E9dric wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2003 21:22, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > I have asked this a few times and never really got an answer. Is anyb=
ody
> > else using gcc with glibc as their cross-compiler/C lib combination. =
If
> > so, are they able to build shared executibles?
> >
> > I don't seem to be able to (using gcc-3.0.4)
> >
> > Adrian
>
> I've successfully compiled (with Bill's Gatliff "emblindc" environment)=
 as
> shared and static these apps/libs :
>
> gpm-1.20.0 with ncurses support (1.20.1 don't seem to compile correctly=
=2E..)
> libpng-1.2.5
> libtiff-3.6.0-beta (this is the only version that I was able to compile=
 as
> shared library for linux-sh4)
> ncurses-5.3 with gpm support.
> gpm-1.19.6 with ncurses support.
> zlib-1.1.4
> libpng-1.0.12 (I can't compile links-2.1pre7 with libpng-1.2.1...)
> libjpeg.v6b
> libtiff-v3.5.7
> links-2.1pre7 with framebuffer, png, tiff, jpeg, javascript and gpm sup=
port
>
Thanks again.

Just to come back on this - and for the avoidance of doubt - when you say=
 you=20
compiled them - you were able to run them also? I have no problem compili=
ng=20
the apps, it's running them that is difficult - they seg fault.

And if so, could I encourage you to compile mpg123 (as a reference app) a=
nd=20
see if you can run that as shared?

What setup are you using for all this? Ie where do you get the libraries =
you=20
link with? (Is it the debian unstable on m17n?)

Slainte
Adrian

Re: [linuxdc-dev] GDROM, modem + internet

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

On Sunday 20 April 2003 11:59, Masta-G wrote:
> Will there be a gdrom driver for LinuxDC, or is a cable/bba still requi=
red?

There has been a GD Rom driver for about two years. But you don't need it=
 to=20
boot your DC anyway.

> And is it possible to write a driver for the 56k modem and port some

A modem driver is perfectly possible if someone wants to write it.

> browser like mozilla to linux so we can browse the internet? That would=
 be

These require X and it's really asking a bit much to expect to run a full=
y=20
featured browser and X Windows in just 16 Megs of memory! Lynx has been=20
ported and works if you want a text only browser. Past attempts to port=20
Konq/E (the embedded version of Konqueror) failed - but I haven't tried f=
or a=20
while.

> really handy for people who dont own a cable/bba. We could use the mode=
m to
> communicate with the pc maybe.

[linuxdc-dev] GDROM, modem + internet

[Masta-G <gba...@at...>]

Will there be a gdrom driver for LinuxDC, or is a cable/bba still =
required?
And is it possible to write a driver for the 56k modem and port some =
browser like mozilla to linux so we can browse the internet?
That would be really handy for people who dont own a cable/bba. We could =
use the modem to communicate with the pc maybe.

[linuxdc-dev] Shared and static

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

I have asked this a few times and never really got an answer. Is anybody =
else=20
using gcc with glibc as their cross-compiler/C lib combination. If so, ar=
e=20
they able to build shared executibles?

I don't seem to be able to (using gcc-3.0.4)

Adrian

[linuxdc-dev] [ANN] HIT-0300 SEGA LAN Adapter device driver.

[Christian B. <c.b...@tu...>]

Hi Folks!

Probably, you've seen the new website and the announce of a
device driver for the "famous" SEGA LAN Adapter :)

So, this email is for the guys who haven't visited the website for
a while. I've written a device driver for the device mentioned
above because I've ordered the wrong NIC from a japanese dealer
(I souldn't burn the midnight oil and try to order someting :)
and I didn't want to resell it or get it dusty because it was that
expensive.

Furthermore, it's a nice experience to write a driver and I want
to express my gratitude to you guys for all your great work!

Thank you!

The driver can be found 

(Source code)
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0018536/dc/src/lan_adapter-0_0_7.tar.bz2

(Patch for 2.4.19)
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0018536/dc/src/lan_adapter-0.0.7-linuxsh-2.4.19.patch.tar.bz2

I'll check the driver in the linux-sh-dc repository in the
next few days.

Best regards,

        Christian

[linuxdc-dev] Sources for NFS booting kernel

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

Can be downloaded at http://195.157.85.85/linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2

[linuxdc-dev] New toolchain attempt

[Karl T. K. <ka...@li...>]

Hi gang.

I've worked at putting together a newer toolchain to base future work
on. It's based on gcc-3.2.2, binutils-2.13.2.1 and uClibc-0.9.19.

It's really just some tweaks to the uClibc toolchain build system. I'm
aiming for building Gentoo packages for this when it starts to work
properly.

Get http://www.boblycat.org/~karltk/linuxdc/uClibc-builder-gcc-3.2.2.tar.gz

Unpack, then do:

APPS=$HOME/apps make

(Set APPS to wherever you want the tools installed).

However, as some of you may know, I do not currently have an internet
connection at home, nor a working computer in my house, so all of this
work has been done across ssh to a remote linux box; therefore I have
not tested if this actually works in the real world.

I get the toolchain to build a zImage that looks somewhat okay, and it
produces a.out files which crash sh-uclibc-ldd, so there are a few
hiccups to be solved.

Adrian promised to send me diff against 2.4.20 vanilla so that I may
test that the toolchain produces a valid zImage from a kernel tree we
know works, but he's evidently too busy boozing again ;P 

If anybody could do a bit of testing and give me feedback as to whether
or not this toolchain actually builds a zImage that boots, and if so,
does it build any user-mode binaries that can be used for anything?

(There is also uClibc-builder-gcc-3.2.tar.gz, which contain a few more
gcc patches; I wonder how many of these we have to forward port).


Kind regards,

Karl T

Re: [linuxdc-dev] NFS booting

[Karl T. K. <ka...@li...>]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 04:58:52PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> I have finally got my NFS daemon working again - and fixed the other
> configuration problems in my ia32 kernel. I am specifying nfs as the
> root filesystem on the DC but it is just loading the ramdisk - should I
> be passing over and empty initrd for this to work?

I can't remember that being necessary. The kernel will use the nfs
device as root (/dev/nfs) and look for /bin/init on it (or whatever you
init= setting is).

The caveats being you having NFS support in the kernel, and the IPs
configured correctly. Use tcpdump or other diagnostics (nfs log) to see
if you actually have a request from the DC at boot.


Kind regards,

Karl T

Re: [linuxdc-dev] Kernel command line

[Karl T. K. <ka...@li...>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:06:59PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> Can someone remind me of the correct command line to make my root fs run
> off NFS?

You have to set three kernel parameters:

root=/dev/nfs 
nfsroot=[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>]
ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>

It is fully documented in the kernel's Documentation/nfsroot.txt. In my
experience, it's best to start with static IPs all over the place, then
migrate over to BOOTP once you have things working.


Kind regards,

Karl T

Re: [linuxdc-dev] Xfree

[Karl T. K. <ka...@li...>]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:46:45AM +0100, Ced ADG wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'd like to know if it's possible to get higher resoltion from the DC ?
> and what about accelerated video ?

It is theoretically possible to tweak the video resolution to approx
800x600. Not entirely certain what impact that has on the hw accel,
really don't think it should matter, as the PVR2 TA works nicely in
higher resolutions on the PC.


Kind regards,

Karl T

[linuxdc-dev] NFS booting

[Adrian M. <Ad...@mc...>]

I have finally got my NFS daemon working again - and fixed the other
configuration problems in my ia32 kernel. I am specifying nfs as the
root filesystem on the DC but it is just loading the ramdisk - should I
be passing over and empty initrd for this to work?

Adrian

[linuxdc-dev] gcc, libstdc++, and ".hidden" patches

[Thomas <spi...@so...>]

hello all.  i was recently working on building a cross compiler toolchain to 
build opie ( http://opie.handhelds.org ) for the dreamcast.  i was following 
bill gatliff's instructions on linuxdevices.com relatively closely (had to 
change a couple of things because i need a dynamic linker), and was able to 
succesfully compile everything i needed.  however, when i was done, i could 
not run opie, getting anundefined reference to __udivsi3_i4 in libstdc++.  
after doing some searching on google, i found that this was due to the 
".hidden" patch. info:

http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh/ml/linux-sh/2001-10/msg00004.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:6G3lXGwcsekC:www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/3076/2001/10/0/6771850/+__udivsi3_i4+libstdc%2B%2B&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:OigLZHKogzwC:www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/3076/2001/10/0/6771420/+__udivsi3_i4+libstdc%2B%2B&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

(sorry for the long urls, but since geocrawler.com no longer exists, i have to 
use the google cache).

anyway, these all apply to the 3.0.1 version of gcc that i was using (and is 
mentioned in these emails), but later versions of gcc on m17n.org are for gcc 
3.0.4, so i was wondering if the patches for those versions still had this 
problem, or, if this is the wrong place to ask, where i could find out.  i 
really dont want to spend more time building another toolchain that wont work 
if i can avoid it : )

thanks for any help
thomas
spi...@so...

Re: [linuxdc-dev] Kernel command line

[Daniel S. <ds...@tr...>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:06:59PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin scrawled:
> Can someone remind me of the correct command line to make my root fs run
> off NFS?

Don't you need to BOOTP for this to happen?

--=20
Daniel Stone                                     <dstone@trinity.unimelb.ed=
u.au>
Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne

[linuxdc-dev] Kernel command line

[Adrian M. <Ad...@mc...>]

Can someone remind me of the correct command line to make my root fs run
off NFS?

Thanks

Adrian

[linuxdc-dev] Rebuilding my tools

[Adrian M. <Ad...@mc...>]

Been away from this for a while - so just need to check - what are the
most up to date patched tools? I have seen messages floating around
about gcc 3.2, but I am using patches for 3.0.4.

And I cannot get glibc 2.2.5 to compile at all!

Adrian

Re: [linuxdc-dev] Xfree

[Paul B. <tri...@sp...>]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 01:46:45 +0100
"Ced ADG" <ce...@ho...> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I'd like to know if it's possible to get higher resoltion from the DC ?
> and what about accelerated video ?

  Mm, good question.  I'm assuming that we'd need to know quite a bit more about the video hardware - which may be difficult to get.
  I should blow the dust off of my DC - have been wanting to for a while.  Never managed to grab an ethernet for it, so will have to face up to dealing with life over a serial cable. ;-)

  -P

[linuxdc-dev] Xfree

[Ced A. <ce...@ho...>]

Hi.

I'd like to know if it's possible to get higher resoltion from the DC ?
and what about accelerated video ?

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Re: [linuxdc-dev] Gcc/Glibc patches ...etc..

[Karl T. K. <ka...@pr...>]

Hi.

A complete toolchain has not been assembled in a few months. There was
some work on this back in december, but it petered out.

You may want to take a look at the most recent uclibc toolchain, it's the
best shot so far.

Kind regards,

Karl T

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Alpha Beta wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I just want to ask:
> 
> What is the current gcc version and patches needed
> to compile 2.4 and 2.5 kernel and glibc (version and
> patches also) ?
> 
> I have the old debian from
> http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh that's working pretty
> well but having sound will be great  
> 
> PS: I don't know why those informations are not on the
> site and informations on linuxsh site are a bit old.
> (not from a critic point of view, if i may help on
> that task or an other point of view (doc,cfg): ask me)
>  
> Thanks.
> 
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[linuxdc-dev] Gcc/Glibc patches ...etc..

[Alpha B. <xw...@ya...>]

Hi everyone,
I just want to ask:

What is the current gcc version and patches needed
to compile 2.4 and 2.5 kernel and glibc (version and
patches also) ?

I have the old debian from
http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh that's working pretty
well but having sound will be great  

PS: I don't know why those informations are not on the
site and informations on linuxsh site are a bit old.
(not from a critic point of view, if i may help on
that task or an other point of view (doc,cfg): ask me)
 
Thanks.


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[linuxdc-dev] New User

[Jo <joa...@ne...>]

Hi all!

My name is João Fernandes, and I am a portuguese boy with 16 years old, very interested by the New techonologies, so i will be with an eye in this ML. I bought my DC 3 days ago, so i am waiting to receive the keyboard to put Linux on it.

bye bye

João Fernandes aka Carl_Sagan

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