Subject: Re: How to built a system from another platform ?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Richard PLOIX <richard.ploix@fr.adp.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/13/2000 21:26:11
hi,

At 17:09 13/12/00 +0100, you wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:45:14PM +0100, Richard PLOIX wrote:
>> hello,
>> I have a RISCPC/arm32 and a laptop/i386 NetBSD machines.
>> I recently do an update of the arm32 machine with 1.4.3 version,
>> (SUP, kernel and make build).
>> The sources are on the 8Gb-arm32 machine.
>> I have a ppp link between the two machines.
>> The 1386 disk(250 Mb) is too small to support the sources on itself.
>> Is it possible to generate an i386 kernel and an i386 make build
>> from or via the arm32 machine?
>
>You could certainly set up a cross compiler on the arm32 machine. It's
>quite easy to build a kernel this way, but doing a 'make build' will require
>more tweaks.

OK, but how to do these kernel and cross compiled ?

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>Another option is to mount the arm32's disk via NFS on the i386 machine,
>but over ppp it will be quite slow.

I have a ppp and a lot of time to do it.
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>Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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