Hello All! Subj.
I read HOWTO describing process of installing Debian on it, and found something which confused me:
http://www.ismprofessional.net/pascucci/documenti/mybook/mybook-hacking-en.h...
===================== ...Fedora has a porting project for ARM platforms, but there is a problem: only EABI is supported, and EABI requires GCC version 4 or newer. The GCC versio 4.x is affected by a bug with floating point emulation in cross compiling, so it's impossible to generate a kernel for Mybook with EABI support with cross compilation. =====================
This war written in 2007, and possibly things changed since then. In any case, MyBook has the following parameters:
[root@MyBookWorld ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARM926EJ-Sid(wb) rev 5 (v5l) BogoMIPS : 99.73 Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp java CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 5TEJ CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0x926 CPU revision : 5 Cache type : write-back Cache clean : cp15 c7 ops Cache lockdown : format C Cache format : Harvard I size : 32768 I assoc : 4 I line length : 32 I sets : 256 D size : 32768 D assoc : 4 D line length : 32 D sets : 256
Hardware : Oxsemi NAS Revision : 0000 Serial : 0000000000000000 [root@MyBookWorld ~]# uname -a Linux MyBookWorld 2.6.17.14 #1 PREEMPT Fri Jan 18 10:40:25 GMT 2008 armv5tejl GNU/Linux [root@MyBookWorld ~]#
Is it possible to install Fedora on it? If not, how can I help?
Hello All!
Hi
===================== ...Fedora has a porting project for ARM platforms, but there is a problem: only EABI is supported, and EABI requires GCC version 4 or newer. The GCC versio 4.x is affected by a bug with floating point emulation in cross compiling, so it's impossible to generate a kernel for Mybook with EABI support with cross compilation. =====================
I'm not sure about those. I recall use gcc 3.4.3 that supported EABI without issues. Besides that I don't recall any issues with GCC 4.x that it can't build the kernel floating point emulation code. Do you have pointers for such issues?
I recommend cross compiling a kernel with GCC 4.x toolchains and trying it yourself.
Is it possible to install Fedora on it? If not, how can I help?
Just make sure that EABI is supported by the kernel, since you are using LK 2.6.17.x then you should be ok. Afterwards read and follow the details on -