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+Some notes to help future porters. Replace 'ARCH' with whatever arch
+you are hacking on.
+
+====================
+=== Config Files ===
+====================
+- create extra/Configs/Config.ARCH
+ See the other arch files for some good examples. powerpc/sparc/alpha
+ should be pretty simple templates.
+- add ARCH to the 'Target Architecture' list in extra/Configs/Config.in
+- for now, disable shared libraries
+ add HAVE_NO_SHARED and ARCH_HAS_NO_LDSO to Config.ARCH's HAVE_ELF
+
+====================
+=== libc sysdeps ===
+====================
+(note: if glibc has already been ported to your arch, you can usually just
+ copy a lot of files from them rather than coding from scratch)
+- create libc/sysdeps/linux/ARCH
+- copy Makefile and Makefile.arch from libc/sysdeps/linux/i386/
+- set CSRC and SSRC to nothing in Makefile.arch for now
+
+- create crt1.S which defines the _start function ... you will probably want
+ to clear the frame pointer to make gdb happy, and then you will want to call
+ the funcion __uClibc_main() which takes these parameters:
+ __uClibc_main(main(), argc, argv, _init(), _fini())
+ for now, you can disable the UCLIBC_CTOR_DTOR option and just set those two
+ arguments to NULL
+ glibc stores this function in libc/sysdeps/ARCH/elf/start.S
+
+- create these additional files in ARCH/bits/
+
+ (template versions can be found in common/bits/ for you to tweak)
+ endian.h fcntl.h setjmp.h stackinfo.h uClibc_arch_features.h wordsize.h
+
+ kernel_types.h should be created based upon linux asm-ARCH/posix_types.h
+
+ copy linux asm-ARCH/stat.h to bits/kernel_stat.h
+
+ create syscalls.h based upon linux's unistd.h / glibc's sysdeps.h ... really
+ you just want to define the _syscall[0-6] macros
+
+- at this point, you should have enough to generate a working HELLO WORLD
+ static binary (see test/silly/*.c files)
+
+- if you want UCLIBC_CTOR_DTOR support, you will need to create crti.S and
+ crtn.S files which define function prologues/epilogues
+
+- for a more stable static port, you will need to create these files (and
+ update the Makefile.arch values accordingly)
+ __longjmp bsd-_setjmp bsd-setjmp brk clone setjmp syscall vfork
+ usually these are written in assembler, but you may be able to cheat and
+ write them in C ... see other ports for more information
+
+====================
+=== pthread deps ===
+====================
+
+TODO: nptl / linuxthreads / linuxthreads.old
+
+====================
+=== ldso sysdeps ===
+====================
+- enable ldso/shared options in your extra/Configs/Config.ARCH file
+- you'll need to create these files in ldso/ldso/ARCH/
+ dl-debug.h dl-startup.h dl-syscalls.h dl-sysdep.h elfinterp.c resolve.S
+
+- dl-debug.h: define string versions of all the relocations of your arch in the
+ _dl_reltypes_tab array ... the index should match the actual reloc type, so
+ if the value of say R_X86_64_PC16 is 13, then "R_X86_64_PC16" better be at
+ index 13 of the array
+
+- dl-startup.h:
+ - define the _start function which should call _dl_start which takes just one
+ parameter ... a pointer to argc (usually on the stack)
+ - define the GET_ARGV() macro which calculates the value of argv based upon
+ the parameter passed to _dl_start (usually it's simply just ARGS+1)
+ - define PERFORM_BOOTSTRAP_RELOC() macro which will handle just the relocs
+ that the ldso itself will generate
+
+- dl-syscalls.h:
+ if you wrote your bits/syscalls.h file correctly in the libc step above, you
+ can simply copy this file from another arch and be done ... otherwise you
+ will have to define the syscall[0-6] macros again, but this time setting
+ _dl_errno instead of just errno
+
+- dl-sysdep.h:
+ misc cruft goes in here ... you want to:
+ - either define or undefine ELF_USES_RELOCA
+ - define the INIT_GOT macro
+ - define MAGIC1 to the EM_### value your ELF arch uses
+ - define ELF_TARGET to a string name for your arch
+ - define the do_rem() macro
+ - define misc ALIGN macro's
+ - define elf_machine_type_class() macro
+ - define the inline functions elf_machine_dynamic, elf_machine_load_address,
+ and elf_machine_relative
+ glibc stores a bunch of these values in libc/sysdeps/ARCH/dl-machine.h
+
+- elfinterp.c:
+ define all the relocation functions ... it's best if you just copy from
+ another arch which uses the same type of relocations (REL or RELA) and
+ start from there.
+
+- resolve.S:
+ front end of lazy relocation ... define the _dl_linux_resolve symbol which
+ is called by a PLT entry which has yet to be setup ... you will want to:
+ - set up arguments for _dl_linux_resolver()
+ - call _dl_linux_resolver()
+ - clean up after call
+ - jump to function address now stored in PLT