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| # 08:24:39 | MrFreeman | Greetings. I was wondering how much of a herculean effort it would be to introduce another architecture into crosstool-ng. |
| # 08:35:01 | milkylainen | Hello. What architecture? |
| # 08:35:45 | milkylainen | I'm assuming you already have all the tools ported? Since the question was specific to ct-ng. |
| # 08:43:24 | MrFreeman | The 80960 architecture. I have built it manually on SUSE and with Cygwin (msys2 seems to not play nice with the older binutils), but I was wondering if maybe it might be more beneficial to attempt to add it to crosstool-ng rather than post tutorials on github. |
| # 08:46:51 | milkylainen | i960? That was a long time ago. |
| # 08:47:55 | milkylainen | You mean that all the relevant tools have functioning ports for i960 these days? Ie, gcc, glibc (or some other c-lib?), binutils etc? |
| # 08:48:00 | MrFreeman | It was. I have a dev board I tinker with, and I also manipulate disassembled game code for arcade machines which used the embedded processor. |
| # 08:48:17 | milkylainen | I see. Sounds like a fun project. :) |
| # 08:49:20 | MrFreeman | Nothing modern, as the architecture was discontinued some time ago. Then again, I see the s390 in crosstool and that ended up being discontinued slightly before the i960's end of life, ha |
| # 08:49:40 | milkylainen | i960 has got to be like almost 30 years old since it went into the grave. |
| # 08:50:07 | MrFreeman | BiiN: Billions invested in Nothing =P |
| # 08:50:53 | MrFreeman | Apparently a lot of printers used the processor, and surprisingly a lot of older gambling machines. |
| # 08:51:06 | MrFreeman | Network and raid cards also utilized it |
| # 08:52:01 | milkylainen | Mmm. Maybe they used specialized embedded toolchains. Like IAR etc. |
| # 08:52:52 | MrFreeman | Intel put out their own CTOOLS to go with the processor, but interestingly those tools didn't make it to the modern web |
| # 08:53:14 | milkylainen | green hills perhaps. |
| # 08:53:37 | MrFreeman | You know I've never actually found that one, though a lot of documentation talks about it |
| # 08:55:37 | milkylainen | cpackham, bhundven: You guys know anything about the state of i960 these days? |
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