Re: cross-compile mvme162

[Ralph Lange <lange@bii.bessy.de>]

Hi.

> The difference between compiling a mvme167 and compiling a mvme162 is that the
> former uses -m68040 option while the latter one uses -msoft-float option.

Right.
There are two different processor versions of the mvme162: One is equipped
with an 68040 (which includes a floating point processor), the other uses an
68LC040 (low cost: with no floating point arithmetics).

To run successfully on *all* mvme162s, the -msoft-float option is set which
replaces the floating point operations by library calls.

> When I loaded  base/bin/mv162/iocCore into a mvme162, I got the error messge as
> following:

> ld < targetmv162/iocCore
> undefined symbol: ___eqdf2
> undefined symbol: ___gtdf2
> undefined symbol: ___ltdf2
> undefined symbol: ___floatsidf
> undefined symbol: ___adddf3
> undefined symbol: ___divdf3
> undefined symbol: ___floatsisf
> undefined symbol: ___addsf3
>  ......
> ld error: error reading file (errno = 0x1c0001)

The VxWorks BSP for the mvme162 includes two kernels: one for each processor
type. When you boot the non-LC-kernel, the floating point libraries are not
included which leads to missing symbols when loading code compiled with
-msoft-float.

> When I loaded base/bin/mv167/iocCore,drvSup, recSup, devSup and a simple
> database into a mvme162, it didn't give me any error message, but the IOC hang.
> (drvSup and devSup caused it)

The mvme167 has got an FPU, the library routines are not used -> no missing
symbols at load time.
I don't know what causes the hanging IOC, but there might be more
differences between mvme167 and mvme162 than price ... ;-)

> I don't have any problem to load mv167/stuff into a mvme167.

Fine.

> Could anybody give me a help? Thanks a lot.

Just boot the mvme162 with the appropriate kernel.

Hope that helps,
Ralph
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