[yocto] ppc e500v2 support?

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/11/3 Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com>:
> On 10-11-03 11:34 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to add my powerpc board to yocto (as a test). This board
>> mpc8536ds has an e500v2 core. It works under OE (MACHINE =
>
> I can definitely guarantee that this would work in
> the yocto kernel (with a small local step for you), in
> fact, I've got a full BSP for this, and any of the extra
> features in the kernel (SPE, IEEE float, lttng, etc) will
> all work for any e500* board.

Sounds good. Is there anything you could share as a starting point?

Frans
>
> When doing the initial freescale board work, I ran into
> similar (same) problems with userspace (and gcc), and
> ended up backing off to a more generic optimization level
> to get things working. So there are a definitely few things
> to do. I was experimenting with FPU settings, but haven't
> gone back to look again.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
>> "calamari"). but gcc-cross-initial fails in do_compile when it tries
>> to run configure for the libgcc subdir.
>> The problem is similar to http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/2026/
>>
>> Basically gcc-cross-initial fails building libgcc, config.log has:
>> cc1: error: not configured for ABI: 'spe'
>>
>> I feel this is related to the generation of the host triplet.
>> OE has conf/distro/include/sane-toolchain.inc which has a func
>> compute_os_portion_of_target_triplet
>> this one adds gnuspe to the host triplet (and maybe some other things).
>>
>> poky does not give me that part of the triplet.
>>
>> Anyone an idea what is wrong (I can provide machine description etc,
>> but it is also all in the OE git).
>>
>> Best regards, Frans
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