[ELDK] x64 host for eldk, AMCC Kilauea questions

Jim Idle jimi at pktplus.com
Wed Mar 10 18:06:18 CET 2010


Hi,

 

Sorry if there is a place I could look this up or search but I cannot find
anything obviously and there is no archive search I can find (have you guys
asked markmail.org to index your lists [it is free] as this is a huge help
for archive searching).

 

I have taken the latest eldk from git and setting up a build on my 64 bit
Madriva system. However the ELDK_BUILD script gives:

 

Host architecture x86_64 is not supported by ELDK

 

However, I suspect that this just needs adding to list? Perhaps there is
more to do than this thooug. 

 

#

# Check host architecture

#

case `uname -m` in

i*86)   HOST_ARCH="i386"    ;;

x86_64) HOST_ARCH="x86_64"  ;;

sun4*)  HOST_ARCH="sparc"   ;;

*)  echo "Host architecture `uname -m` is not supported by ELDK."

    exit 1  ;;

esac

 

 

The script then moves on but instead of:

 

The SRPMS and SRPMS-updates directories may contain the source RPM packages
of Fedora Core 7. The ELDK_BUILD script looks for a package in the SRPMS
directory and then, if the package is not found, in the SRPMS-updates
directory. If some (or all) of the Fedora Core SRPMs needed for the build
are missing in the directory, the ELDK_BUILD script will download the source
RPMs automatically from the Internet.

 

The script stops and says it cannot find /opt/eld/SRPMS (btw I had
ELD_PREFIX set and it still said that same directory was missing, but I also
tried without ELD_PREFIX set). So, I am presuming that I will need to
manually get the SRMPS set. Are the ones on the ftp site up to date? Is
there a git source for those?

 

On the up to date front, I presume that after building ELDK, I can then
replace the 2.6 kernel there with the latest from your git hub and there is
nothing else to do but that? 

 

What about all the rpm packages? Are they up to date? I don't mind at all
putting the effort to get my kit in to shape (you guys are giving me the
head start for free after all), but it isn't clear from the docs I can find
just how up to date things are (looks like your kernel is tracking the
latest one though). 

 

Finally then, this is targeting a AMCC Kilauea board. Looking through the
archives that I can find, it looks like this might not be quite as up to
date as it might be? For instance the USB driver seems to be a bit wonky
(though it will work somewhat with the latest kernel I understand?). Are we
flogging a dead horse with the Kilauea board?

 

I apologize in advance for all the questions if they are indeed answered
somewhere I cannot find. Markmail.org would help a lot here if the archives
contain these answers.

 

Thanks for any pointers, I am trying everything as I speak but it would save
me time if there are shortcuts here of course.

 

Jim



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