Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Userland support for 2.6.30

[John Williams <john.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve and others,

As you have seen there is a huge amount of work going on right now on
the kernel side, but less visible is the effort we are going through
to make sure that the tools and C libraries also come along for the
ride.  As part of our merge upstream, certain kernel headers are
changing which have impacts in userspace via the C libraries, and
these changes must be made in tandem.

I am working on getting some toolchain / C library build scripts in
place to allow others to build, and hopefully work on, the tools, and
also of course start working with the shiny new upstream kernel.

But, please understand that at the moment simply dropping the 2.6.30
kernel tree into a petalinux distro will not work - if it did we would
have pushed it out like that already!

Regards,

John


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Steve Magnani <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As I work through merging the 2.6.30-rc4 kernel into my petalinux-v0.30-
> rc1 environment, I find that I am having to modify kernel headers and
> uClibc files in order to get uClibc and gdb to compile.
>
> I understand that completing the 2.6.30 kernel merge is PetaLogix's #1
> priority at the moment, but I'm wondering what kind of userland
> infrastructure is being used to exercise the changes. Could this be made
> available to the community, even as an unsupported "caveat emptor" set of
> code? The more code I modify, the harder I think it will be to bring the
> new kernel up on my board. Conversely, the more people that work with the
> new kernel, the more issues will be found and resolved.
>
> Just a thought.
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