[12:51] <Ford_Prefect> Greetings folks
[12:51] <Ford_Prefect> I'm trying to build an Ubuntu-based distribution for an ARMv7 board from source
[12:51] <Ford_Prefect> Is there some documentation on how the current armel repositories are built that I can use as a starting point?
[12:53] <ogra> they are built natively on armel buildds as any other ubuntu arch, currently defaulting to ARMv5 soon defaulting to ARMv6+vfp
[12:56] <Ford_Prefect> ogra, ah, okay. I'd imagined they'd be cross-compiled.
[12:56] <Ford_Prefect> But that's not too easy, since not everything cross-compiles easily
[12:57] <ogra> right
[12:57] <Ford_Prefect> Erm, any handly links on doing this on the board?
[12:58] <ogra> i dont think so, largely its just "set up an instance of sbuild or launchpad-buildd" and be done
[12:59] <Ford_Prefect> Okay thanks - good enough starting point for me too Google. :)
[12:59] <Ford_Prefect> (and thanks for rootstock - currently trying it out here)
[13:00] <ogra> :)
[13:00] <ogra> its darn slow, i'm waiting for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/401782 to be fixed to build something faster
[13:00] <ubot4> Launchpad bug 401782 in qemu "please build a static version of qemu-arm 0.11.x in a separate binary deb" [Wishlist,New]
[13:03]  * Ford_Prefect waits eagerly. :)
[13:05] <Ford_Prefect> ogra, I don't suppose there are armv6+vfp binaries available yet?
[13:06] <ogra> nope, we're in the process to replace the buildds with v7 machines
[13:06] <ogra> before these are there we cant build for v6
[13:06] <Ford_Prefect> Nice. What kind of machines do you guys use?
[13:07] <ogra> currently some marvell v5 ones, the new ones are still under evaluation but will likely be imx51 based
[13:08] <Ford_Prefect> Ah, okay.
[14:55] <lool> ogra: I'm not too surprized that the fargile jaunty hacks don't survive the switch to gcc 4.4
[14:55] <ogra> well, looks more like a binutils issue though
[14:55] <ogra> i mean the error comes from ld
[14:56] <ogra> but yeah
[14:56] <ogra> thats a bit odd, i was hoping to just apply the new patchset on top
[14:56] <ogra> but that whole build process is so screwed
[14:57] <ogra> i wish he had just taken the time to properly port it to build natively even if that would have taken a month
[15:01] <Martyn-> ogra : Which component?
[15:02] <ogra> redboot
[15:02] <lool> ogra: Well perhaps you can look into it
[15:03] <ogra> lool, yeah, thats what i'm doing ... but i know he had something nearly done and it really annoys me to duplicate work
[15:03] <ogra> though given he is unreachable that wont help
[15:13] <Martyn-> ogra : I'm still in the middle of evaluating UEFI
[15:14] <Martyn-> ogra : I have a working u-boot though
[15:16] <Martyn-> ogra : Are you really going to go through the whole trouble of getting eCos to build natively, and then redboot?
[17:50] <xbox> hi there ;)
[17:51] <xbox> everyone on holiday?
[17:52] <ogra> you wish
[17:55] <xbox> hehe LOL
[17:56] <xbox> he but is this channel also used for slug questions?
[17:57] <ogra> you can, but its not massively used anymore anywhere in the team, we switch to ARMv6 in karmic which wont work on the slug
[18:00] <xbox> okay maybe you can give/provide me a hint .... I tried to load the "di-nslu2.bin " image for runnin debian but I can not login could it be that my slug did not reach the upgrade mode ? or just typing in the wrong password?
[18:01] <xbox> hi ericm