ELDK on a PowerPC host machine?

[annamaya]

Thanks for the reply Wolfgang. Can you give me a hint
on the kind of work that is required to make this work
for the PPC host?

--- Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> In message
> <20050114155131.22836.qmail at web53809.mail.yahoo.com>
> you wrote:
> > I noticed that ELDK from denx does not support
> running
> > on a PowerPC host machine like the Power G4 or G5.
> > When I tried rebuilding it on a Power G4 with
> > YellowDog installed on it, it complained that the
> > PowerPC host machine is not supported. Why is this
> 
> Correct. PPC host are not supported yet. Also please
>  not  that  only
> RedHat-7.3 will work as a build host without
> additional tweaking.
> 
> > host architecture not supported? I also found out
> that
> 
> Little demand? We have seen less than 5 requests for
> this so far.
> 
> > MontaVista does not support the PowerPC host
> > architecture anymore which they did a while ago.
> What
> > seems to be the real reason for not supporting
> this?
> 
> Probably the same reason: little demand.
> 
> 
> Well: the ELDK is free software -  if  you  fix  the
>  existing  build
> problems  and  send  me  a  patch I promise to check
> it in on the CVS
> server (as long as it doesn't break anything). But
> don't expect  this
> to be an easy job.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 
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