Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:00:11 +0100 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: "Ian Lepore" <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARM EABI test image Message-ID: <op.wtbyyldw8527sy@pinky> In-Reply-To: <1362246830.1195.181.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <20130302172556.5b59e122@bender> <op.wtbw52qc8527sy@pinky> <1362246830.1195.181.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:53:50 +0100, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 18:21 +0100, Ronald Klop wrote: >> On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:25:56 +0100, Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> >> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > I have built an updated ARM EABI test image for Raspberry Pi [1]. >> > >> > The only known issue is c++ exception handling is broken when >> > using in a dynamically linked executable. Static executables should >> > work with c++ exceptions. >> > >> > To test it you will have to extract it using unxz and dd it to an sd >> > card, for example, with a USB to SD adapter on /dev/da0: >> > $ unxz bsd-pi-eabi-r247609.img.xz >> > $ dd if=bsd-pi-eabi-r247609.img of=/dev/da0 >> > >> > If you don't have a Raspberry Pi but would like to try it on your >> board >> > you can add -DWITH_ARM_EABI to the make commands you use to build and >> > install world and the kernel. >> >> Is this also interesing on the older SHEEVAPLUG? >> If yes, I can test it somewhere next week. >> >> Ronald. > > As I understand it, the plan is that eventually everything is EABI, > including the older armv4/5 stuff, so that needs testing too. > > You know what I haven't stumbled across yet is a simple explanation of > why EABI is better then OABI. I tried to search for some info the other > day, but there are so many noise hits on the search I didn't find a > simple synopsis of differences or advantages. Googling on 'eabi vs oabi' gives me this http://wiki.embeddedarm.com/wiki/EABI_vs_OABI. Ronald.
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