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 HAVE_NO_SHARED and ARCH_HAS_NO_LDSO
14 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
48 static binary (see test/silly/*.c files)
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
63 TODO: nptl / linuxthreads / linuxthreads.old
68 - enable ldso/shared options in your extra/Configs/Config.ARCH file
69 - you will need to create the following files in ldso/ldso/ARCH/
70 dl-debug.h dl-startup.h dl-syscalls.h dl-sysdep.h elfinterp.c resolve.S
72 - dl-debug.h: define string versions of all the relocations of your arch in the
73 _dl_reltypes_tab array ... the index should match the actual reloc type, so
74 if the value of say R_X86_64_PC16 is 13, then "R_X86_64_PC16" better be at
78 - define the _start function which should call _dl_start which takes just one
79 parameter ... a pointer to argc (usually on the stack)
80 glibc stores this function in libc/sysdeps/ARCH/dl-machine.h as RTLD_START
81 - define the GET_ARGV() macro which calculates the value of argv based upon
82 the parameter passed to _dl_start (usually it's simply just ARGS+1)
83 - define PERFORM_BOOTSTRAP_RELOC() macro which will handle just the relocs
84 that the ldso itself will generate
87 if you wrote your bits/syscalls.h file correctly in the libc step above, you
88 can simply copy this file from another arch and be done ... otherwise you
89 will have to define the syscall[0-6] macros again, but this time setting
90 _dl_errno instead of just errno
93 misc cruft goes in here ... you want to:
94 - either define or undefine ELF_USES_RELOCA
95 - define the INIT_GOT macro
96 - define MAGIC1 to the EM_### value your ELF arch uses
97 - define ELF_TARGET to a string name for your arch
98 - define the do_rem() macro
99 - define misc ALIGN macro's
100 - define elf_machine_type_class() macro
101 - define the inline functions elf_machine_dynamic, elf_machine_load_address,
102 and elf_machine_relative
103 glibc stores a bunch of these values in libc/sysdeps/ARCH/dl-machine.h
106 define all the relocation functions ... it's best if you just copy from
107 another arch which uses the same type of relocations (REL or RELA) and
111 front end of lazy relocation ... define the _dl_linux_resolve symbol which
112 is called by a PLT entry which has yet to be setup ... you will want to:
113 - set up arguments for _dl_linux_resolver()
114 - call _dl_linux_resolver()
115 - clean up after call
116 - jump to function address now stored in PLT
117 glibc stores this function in libc/sysdeps/ARCH/dl-trampoline.S