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 - Initially you will want to disable shared libraries, since making the shared library loader work requires you first have basic architecture support working. Thus you should add ARCH_HAS_NO_SHARED and ARCH_HAS_NO_LDSO to Config.ARCH's TARGET_ARCH ==================== === 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()) Initially if you wish to make things easier on yourself, you can disable the UCLIBC_CTOR_DTOR option and just set the init/fini arguments to NULL. glibc generally 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. It is important that these syscalls should be PIC safe (or you should provide a PIC and non-PIC version) if you wish to properly support shared libraries. - at this point, you should have enough to generate a working HELLO WORLD static binary - 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 === ==================== - elf.h - presumably you've already taught binutils all about the random ELF relocations your arch needs, so now you need to make sure the defines exist for uClibc. make sure the EM_### define exists and all of the R_###_### reloc defines. - enable ldso/shared options in your extra/Configs/Config.ARCH file - you will need to create the following 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) glibc stores this function in libc/sysdeps/ARCH/dl-machine.h as RTLD_START - 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 glibc stores this function in libc/sysdeps/ARCH/dl-trampoline.S - utils/ldd.c - if you want support for ldso cache files (spoiler: you do), then you'll need to teach ldd a little. generally, the fallback code should be smart and "just work", but you should be explicit. just pop it open and add an appropriate ifdef for your arch and set MATCH_MACHINE() and ELFCLASSM. there are plenty examples and you're (hopefully) smart. ==================== === Misc Cruft === ==================== - MAINTAINERS - presumably you're going to submit this code back to mainline and since you're the only one who cares about this arch (right now), you should add yourself to the toplevel MAINTAINERS file. do it.