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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 1997 05:21:30 -0500
From:      Jerry Hicks <wghhicks@ix.netcom.com>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   [Fwd: IDT processors?]
Message-ID:  <3469832A.6273F566@ix.netcom.com>

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From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
To: wghhicks@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: IDT processors?
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Jerry Hicks writes:
 > (moved to -chat)
 > David Kelly wrote:
 > 
 > > At about the top, the 68360 has a CPU-32+ core and (4) communications
 > > ports similar to the 68302 but better. A mask pinout option turns one
 > > port into an ethernet port.
 > 
 > And then the QUICC-32...
 > 
 > The '360 family has a support for SS7 and LAPx protocols too.
 > 
 > Back on a FreeBSD-related topic...   ;)
 > 
 > It would be nice to have a cross-development package for these
 > processors hosted on FreeBSD, since there are quite a few ISA/PCI boards
 > available for PC systems.
 > 
 > Anybody know of anything workable?

Sure.  Download the source tarballs for binutils and gcc, and in order,
do:

	./configure --target-m68k-wrs-vxworks --host=i386-foo-freebsd2.2
	make
	make install

It'll take a couple of hours, and you will, of course, need VxWorks.  ;^)

If you want to try roughing it, you can compile for a.out or coff and
learn enough 'ld' to generate an absolute load module in S records or
Intel hex format.  The Fujitsu SPARClite I've been working with does
exactly this, I use --target=sparclite-coff.  I extracted the library
files from the distribution CD-ROM rather than rebuilding them all.
This also got me the ld scripts and makefiles from the SunOS version,
which were quite usable on FreeBSD as soon as I fixed up a few paths to
libraries and such.

FreeBSD makes an excellent cross-development platform; it's kind of cool
to use GUD-mode in Emacs while single stepping the kernel on another
machine over the network.  ;^)

-- 
          "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com


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