Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 20:49:57 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: irfanzia@gmail.com Cc: gonzo@univ.kiev.ua, freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org, freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/MIPS project status update Message-ID: <20070509.204957.-1337019341.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <7b353d790705091911i64b4ae07icf7032fcb81b8c7a@mail.gmail.com> References: <460D96D0.8010700@univ.kiev.ua> <7b353d790705091911i64b4ae07icf7032fcb81b8c7a@mail.gmail.com>
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In message: <7b353d790705091911i64b4ae07icf7032fcb81b8c7a@mail.gmail.com> "Irfan Zia" <irfanzia@gmail.com> writes: : Hi Gonzo, all : : I plan to work on a FreeBSD R7K Mips port in Big-endian mode. The : other catch is that I want to do my development on Linux. I have : looked at the makefiles and am fairly confident that they can be : worked out with pmake on Linux (Fedora). Cool! : My real problem is how do I force the built objects/binaries into : a Big-Endian UFS file-system. I don't have a BE machine. Is it : possible, to somehow use files/dirs built on a an LE system to be : bundled into a BE UFS filesystem ? Any tools/hints. Consider /usr/ports/sysutils/makefs. It can make a UFS image, and you can specify endianness, I believe. Warner
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