David Young wrote:
> I built a macppc kernel with the Atheros HAL today.  I ran it on my
> 400MHz G4 Powerbook.  When I plugged in an Atheros card that is known to
> work on NetBSD/i386, ath(4) failed early during device attachment with
> "ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 3".
> 
> I wasn't expecting success to come so easy: Matt Thomas and others tell
> me that we don't use EABI.  Please, someone tell me how the compilation
> configuration file in
> sys/contrib/arch/powerpc/athhal-powerpc-le-eabi.inc needs to be changed
> to suit the ABI for NetBSD/powerpc.  I will ask Sam Leffler to build
> that HAL.

We just the svr4 abi.  EABI would be fine except that we don't support the
sdata/sbss portions of it (in the kernel).


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