MaverickCrunch / EABI Toolchain, Kernel, and Sysroot

Hi everyone,

I just announced a somewhat lengthy HowTo with information on building a fully compliant kernel, root filesystem, and toolchain for use with the ep93xx series of SOC's. This is really mainly addressed at Gentoo Linux users due to the build system in place.

GentooWiki:Gentoo_for_the_TS72xx_SBC_(Full_Distro)

The next few steps are getting a package manager working, a commissioning station, and also a database for storing client/host keys.

Maverick-Crunch / EABI support for Crossdev

Since I've been using the TS-7xxx boards from Technologic Systems, I've been wanting to experiment a bit more with the Maverick-Crunch floating point coprocessor in order to squeeze a bit more performance in number-crunching apps.

Here are some simple instructions for creating an armv4tl-maverick-linux-gnueabi toolchain using Gentoo/Portage/Crossdev. These instructions are current as of 26. February 2008.

[ Update: 26. Feb, 2008 ]

The procedure is tested and I have yet to experience any bugs in any normal userspace applications. I know that lame now produces mp3s 25 times faster, and there were no audible errors, which basically confirms with Martin Guy's results that the Maverick FPU is being used.

The only thing that I am lacking is a better stress test - paranoia.c just segfaults, and I'm not really sure why.

I've moved the instructions, as well as instructions for creating an eabi Linux kernel and a full userland, to the Gentoo Wiki.