[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] arch/powerpc: add fsl e5500 and e6500 support

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Baruch Siach,

On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:31:39 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 05:56:37PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > I guess if we go multilib, we should build the C library for both
> > "variants", but then build the rest of the userspace with only one of
> > the two variants, and keep the other variant just to build the special
> > stuff (kernel, bootloader, etc.).
> 
> Please forgive my ignorance, but why do we need a C library to build bare 
> metal software like the kernel and bootloaders?

We indeed normally don't in theory. It would be interesting to see if we
can actually build things like grub with a bare metal x86 32 bits
toolchain. I fear that in practice things might be a bit more
complicated, but it would be worth testing.

Thomas
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