M68HC(S)08 toolchain

I've regisered a project on sf.net and pushed there my efforts in porting binutils/gdb/sim to the Freescale m68hc08/m68hc908/m68hcs08 platforms. Contributors are welcome!

Dreams...

Dreaming now about this USB stick.

Living w/o forks

Yes, currently I'm living without forks. I'm (again) trying to restore OE support for Blackfin platform in a clean way.

One of the major problems is that there is no fork() on Blackfin. And lot's of software expects to have it. E.g. even to build u-boot, via dependancy chain u-boot -> mtd-utils -> e2fsprogs-libs -> util-linux-ng -> udev you get stron dependancy on fork(). I see no way to resolve this, other than build uClibc with UCLIBC_HAS_STUBS, enabling stub for fork().

More on this later

Chine and Japanese LR-WPAN

Thanks to GetIEEE802 I can finally read the 802.15.4 ammendments for China and Japan regulations (802.15.4c and 802.15.4d).

What can I say? On the first glance there are no new bicycles invented. However there is one point in 802.15.4d that I've expressed to my wife in the following terms: 'There is a numeric value there. It's equal to 1 in Japan and to 2 in the rest of the world'.

Adding support for those ammendments into our stack should be straightforward. However most of the nasty things will/should be handled (and hidden) into hardware/firmware, and not present in the highlevel stack.

Git repo for binutils, gdb, etc.

For those fanatics of git who want to access SourceWare trees via git, I've created a repo on github, that is a mirror of the whole SourceWare CVS tree. Yes, everything, including BFD, binutils, gdb, sim, sid, etc.

Clone url: git://github.com/lumag/binutils.git