The Holy Grail (of computing?)

[Paul Mundt]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 06:23:43AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2007 3:40:39 am Carl SHAW wrote:
> > > I don't use buildroot at all.  Lots of other projects (like Gentoo
> > > Embedded or my own Firmware LInux) use uClibc but not buildroot.
> >
> > I agree with that - I work in the commercial embedded Linux market and
> > most people I'm aware of in it actually use an embedded distribution
> > containing uClibc that isn't based on buildroot.  We produce our own
> > embedded distribution (ST Linux) mainly for the SH4.  Our customers seem
> > to like "packaged" software rather than one great big tarball (or most
> > of them anyway).
> 
> If I could get an emulator that ran sh4 code, I'd happily add sh4 as a 
> supported target of FWL.  Unfortunately, qemu doesn't do it yet...
> 
qemu works fine for static binaries on SH-4, there's still some troubles
with ldso under qemu, though. busybox works quite fine at the moment.
Patches are of course welcome for any remaining problems that are
encountered.

I have no idea what an FWL is or why sh4 would want one, but that's
another matter entirely.