Hi!
There was a quite regular kernel hacker's meeting, which initially
started AFAICT with m68k people, but got broader. There used to be one
meeting per year, but the last one seems to have taken place in 2009,
as http://meeting.ffis.de/devel.html tells me. (And from memories,
that seems to be correct.)
I had an email conversation with Maciej some time ago and I believe
that it's time again to start a new meeting. So... Who's interested
in coming along? In the last years, we met in the "Linuxhotel"
(http://linuxhotel.de/) which is near Essen, Germany, directly next
to the river Ruhr. They have comfortable rooms, prices (for some days
over a weekend) are quite affordable and the house features, among
others, a nice park for a walk and to meet up.
I'm Bcc'ing other people (who are known to hack other platforms) and
I'd like to get some feedback: When would/could you manage to come
over? Do you suggest another place to meet? Once I've got some
feedback, I'd probably start a Doodle poll and ask for rooms at the
Linuxhotel.
Happy hacking!
MfG, JBG
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Hi!
I'm regaining all the fun of porting! :-D I've just set-up again some
script to (once a day) build a (kernel-only, for now) cross-compiler
for the vax-linux target. (To be exact, I'm building for all these
targets:
alpha-linux arm-eabi avr bfin-elf frv-linux h8300-elf
hppa-linux hppa64-linux m32r-linux m68k-linux
microblaze-uclinux mips-linux mips64-linux mn10300-linux
powerpc-linux powerpc64-linux ppc-linux ppc64-linux
s390-linux s390x-linux sh-linux sh64-linux sparc-linux
sparc64-linux tic6x-uclinux tilepro-linux vax-linux
xtensa-linux
) It's the `master' branch of binutils's, gcc's and gdb's GIT
repositories. What made me wonder the most was that things seem to
work out of the box. I remember the dark times quite well, when it was
quite a drama building a kernel-only cross-compiler, let alone one
that could build userland.
My next step is to also extract Maciej's SRPMs (you can find them at
ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/SRPMS/) and build
them as well (for `vax-linux' only.) That should bring me back to
business.
What's also quite nice is, that after not building a vax-linux gcc for
quite some time, it just worked. Some 5 or 6 years ago, that target
was broken like two times a month! That was (even longer ago) why I
wrote a script to compile a compiler on a regular basis to catch
problems early. (It's easier then to find the trouble-causing patch.)
MfG, JBG
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Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw(a)lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481
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