On 12/22/10 13:35, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
Hi -
Have you considered adding this info to the Fedora ARM wiki? It
would
certainly be more accessible there than buried in a mailing list post
somewhere. If you're a Fedora packager, you may also look into hosting
RPMs of the cross chain in a fedorapeople repository
I kind of hoped the originators of the cross stuff would uplevel to it
and keep doing what they had been doing, but it seems that it's not
their focus right now.
I'm not a Fedora packager... but I signed up at the site and if the ACLs
will let me I will update the wiki page for the current situation at least.
(
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedorapeople_Repos). armv5tel and
armv7l
cross toolchains would probably be of the most interest, and may even be
parallel installable.
Yeah they should be parallel-installable from what I remember.
There are also a couple of review requests open looking to get cross
packages into Fedora's main repositories; is maintaining cross tools a
goal of the SIG?
I don't know what its formal goals are, but I think it should be part of
ARM (and MIPS) Fedora at least as far as being able to cook kernels with
it. Bootloaders and kernels are kind of uniquely in need of cross
because by definition if you're working on them you often won't have a
reliable native environment.
However the cost of trying to build other things cross in a sane way
soon gets out of control so it seems wise to leave everything else
native-built. Packaged kernels and bootloaders can also be done native.
-Andy