Charles Nelson wrote:

>Hi Garrett,
>I have standardized all of my design projects on the MIPS32 and/or MIPS64
>architectures.  I have made AMD's Alchemy line of devices my first choice
>when I have begin selecting a device for a new project.  About 4 months ago
>I seriously looked at using NetBSD as the foundation for an Au1100 based
>consumer oriented device that I am developing.  While I found NetBSD
>contained everything that I needed, I use Win2kPro and Cygwin as my
>development platform and quite frankly the few times that I tried to cross
>build NetBSD for my Au1100 software development board, it failed miserably.
>After about a week of debugging the configuration scripts to get NetBSD to
>cross build on Cygwin/bash, I gave up and chose WinCE v5.0 and the
>easy-to-use associated toolset.
>
>I have other projects coming up that will use Alchemy devices.  If you know
>of a method that I can use to resolve the Cygwin/bash build problems, I
>would be willing to help at that time.
>  
>
I cross build from Solaris, myself.

I've heard from others that the AMD supplied cross-build environment is
busted.

Maybe it is worthwhile for me to investigate this.  Unfortunately, at
this moment in time, I don't even *have* a Windows machine. :-)  (All my
equipment runs some sort of UNIX -- most often Solaris.)

    -- Garrett

>Best Regards,
>
>Charles L. Nelson
>Embedded System Architects
>www.embsyspro.com
>Home / Office - (916) 383-3596
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>
>
>  
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Garrett D'Amore [mailto:garrett_damore@tadpole.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:31 PM
>>To: port-evbmips@netbsd.org; port-mips@netbsd.org
>>Subject: anyone else out there?
>>
>>
>>Anyone else using or interesting in using Alchemy parts?  I know Simon
>>has a couple of boards, but I'm curious if there is anyone else out there.
>>
>>I've made a lot of progress with improvements to the port, but I've not
>>submitted all of the changes yet, owing largely to the fact that I have
>>dependency fixes which have yet to be properly reviewed and committed.
>>
>>I have gathered that Simon more or less has his plate full at the
>>moment, so I'd love to find other folks who are interested in the work
>>I'm doing, especially who are willing to either test or review my
>>changes.  Perhaps this can help offload Simon somewhat, and help
>>expedite getting these enhancements to the port committed.
>>
>>--
>>Garrett D'Amore                          http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/
>>Sr. Staff Engineer          Extending the Power of 64-bit UNIX Computing
>>Tadpole Computer, Inc.                             Phone: (951) 325-2134
>>
>>
>>
>>    
>>


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Garrett D'Amore                          http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/
Sr. Staff Engineer          Extending the Power of 64-bit UNIX Computing
Tadpole Computer, Inc.                             Phone: (951) 325-2134