[linuxdc-dev] Newbie questions

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Hello everyone


Sorry for bothering you with those questions, but I'm a newbie in the 
LinuxDC arena, and I'd like to get started.

To give it a go, I carefully did everything in Bill Gatliff's article on 
Linuxdevices, and everything went OK. The CD's ready, I don't know if it 
boots cause I'm still waiting for the VGA adaptor (I bought a second hand 
DC just to work on Linux a few days ago :).
I guess I understood what is involved in the process, now I'm willing to 
buid something a tad more sophisticated. So I tried a few things, and here 
are my questions.

1) GD-Rom support: I found at some point on the web the information that 
support was available now, and in the 2.4.10-pre6 kernel you've got some 
kind of option for GD-Rom support. What is it status? I'd love to get rid 
of the initrd, actually... :)

2) I'm working with the files used in BG's article, but where can I find 
new diffs? I guess things move fairly often, do I need to CVS or is there 
some kind of regular diffs release somewhere?

3) Do you maintain your own tree for the basic tools 
(binutils/gcc/libc/kernel) and release from time to time diffs, or are your 
bug corrections merged inside the main CVS trees?

4) A few problems when buiding gcc, for example whent omitting the 
--with-newlib flag. Hints? BTW, never managed to compile correctly 
newlib-1.9. Again, hints?


Thanks a lot for your help.
Ed