1 Some notes to help future porters. Replace 'ARCH' with whatever arch
7 - create extra/Configs/Config.ARCH
8 See the other arch files for some good examples. powerpc/sparc/alpha
9 should be pretty simple templates.
10 - add ARCH to the 'Target Architecture' list in extra/Configs/Config.in
11 - Initially you will want to disable shared libraries, since making
12 the shared library loader work requires you first have basic architecture
13 support working. Thus you should add ARCH_HAS_NO_SHARED and
14 ARCH_HAS_NO_LDSO to Config.ARCH's TARGET_ARCH
19 (note: if glibc has already been ported to your arch, you can usually just
20 copy a lot of files from them rather than coding from scratch)
21 - create libc/sysdeps/linux/ARCH
22 - copy Makefile and Makefile.arch from libc/sysdeps/linux/i386/
23 - set CSRC and SSRC to nothing in Makefile.arch for now
25 - create crt1.S which defines the _start function ... you will probably want
26 to clear the frame pointer to make gdb happy, and then you will want to call
27 the funcion __uClibc_main() which takes these parameters:
28 __uClibc_main(main(), argc, argv, _init(), _fini())
29 Initially if you wish to make things easier on yourself, you can disable the
30 UCLIBC_CTOR_DTOR option and just set the init/fini arguments to NULL.
31 glibc generally stores this function in libc/sysdeps/ARCH/elf/start.S
33 - create these additional files in ARCH/bits/
35 (template versions can be found in common/bits/ for you to tweak)
36 endian.h fcntl.h setjmp.h stackinfo.h uClibc_arch_features.h wordsize.h
38 kernel_types.h should be created based upon linux asm-ARCH/posix_types.h
40 copy linux asm-ARCH/stat.h to bits/kernel_stat.h
42 create syscalls.h based upon linux's unistd.h / glibc's sysdeps.h ... really
43 you just want to define the _syscall[0-6] macros. It is important that
44 these syscalls should be PIC safe (or you should provide a PIC and non-PIC
45 version) if you wish to properly support shared libraries.
47 - at this point, you should have enough to generate a working HELLO WORLD
50 - if you want UCLIBC_CTOR_DTOR support, you will need to create crti.S and
51 crtn.S files which define function prologues/epilogues.
53 - for a more stable static port, you will need to create these files (and
54 update the Makefile.arch values accordingly)
55 __longjmp bsd-_setjmp bsd-setjmp brk clone setjmp syscall vfork
56 usually these are written in assembler, but you may be able to cheat and
57 write them in C ... see other ports for more information
62 - elf.h - presumably you've already taught binutils all about the random ELF
63 relocations your arch needs, so now you need to make sure the defines exist
64 for uClibc. make sure the EM_### define exists and all of the R_###_###
67 - enable ldso/shared options in your extra/Configs/Config.ARCH file
68 - you will need to create the following files in ldso/ldso/ARCH/
69 dl-startup.h dl-syscalls.h dl-sysdep.h elfinterp.c resolve.S
72 - define the _start function which should call _dl_start which takes just one
73 parameter ... a pointer to argc (usually on the stack)
74 glibc stores this function in sysdeps/ARCH/dl-machine.h as RTLD_START
75 - define the GET_ARGV() macro which calculates the value of argv based upon
76 the parameter passed to _dl_start (usually it's simply just ARGS+1)
77 - define PERFORM_BOOTSTRAP_RELOC() macro which will handle just the relocs
78 that the ldso itself will generate
81 if you wrote your bits/syscalls.h file correctly in the libc step above, you
82 can simply copy this file from another arch and be done ... otherwise you
83 will have to define the syscall[0-6] macros again, but this time setting
84 _dl_errno instead of just errno
87 misc cruft goes in here ... you want to:
88 - either define or undefine ELF_USES_RELOCA
89 - define the INIT_GOT macro
90 - define MAGIC1 to the EM_### value your ELF arch uses
91 - define ELF_TARGET to a string name for your arch
92 - define the do_rem() macro
93 - define misc ALIGN macro's
94 - define elf_machine_type_class() macro
95 - define the inline functions elf_machine_dynamic, elf_machine_load_address,
96 and elf_machine_relative
97 glibc stores a bunch of these values in sysdeps/ARCH/dl-machine.h
100 define all the relocation functions ... it's best if you just copy from
101 another arch which uses the same type of relocations (REL or RELA) and
105 front end of lazy relocation ... define the _dl_linux_resolve symbol which
106 is called by a PLT entry which has yet to be setup ... you will want to:
107 - set up arguments for _dl_linux_resolver()
108 - call _dl_linux_resolver()
109 - clean up after call
110 - jump to function address now stored in PLT
111 glibc stores this function in sysdeps/ARCH/dl-trampoline.S
113 - utils/ldd.c - if you want support for ldso cache files (spoiler: you do),
114 then you'll need to teach ldd a little. generally, the fallback code
115 should be smart and "just work", but you should be explicit. just pop
116 it open and add an appropriate ifdef for your arch and set MATCH_MACHINE()
117 and ELFCLASSM. there are plenty examples and you're (hopefully) smart.
122 - MAINTAINERS - presumably you're going to submit this code back to mainline
123 and since you're the only one who cares about this arch (right now), you
124 should add yourself to the toplevel MAINTAINERS file. do it.