From 4b2cdd06d5ddbbd1cd76b1f60279b5a7e5b53774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Stone Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:11:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Move cross-compile NEWS before the mention of server support --- NEWS | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 60cdd0f77..f53e154b7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,14 @@ * What's new +- It is now possible to cross-compile systemtap scripts for foreign + architectures, using the new '-a ARCH' and '-B OPT=VALUE' flags. + For example, put arm-linux-gcc etc. into your $PATH, and point + systemtap at the target kernel build tree with: + stap -a arm -B CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux- -r /build/tree [...] + The -B option is passed to kbuild make. -r identifies the already + configured/built kernel tree and -a its architecture (kbuild ARCH=...). + Systemtap will infer -p4. + - Cross compilation using the systemtap client and server - stap-start-server now accepts the -r, -R, -I, -B and -a options in order to start a cross compiling server. The server will correctly @@ -72,15 +81,6 @@ - The preprocessor now supports || and && in the conditions. e.g. %( arch == "x86_64" || arch == "ia64" %: ... %) -- It is now possible to cross-compile systemtap scripts for foreign - architectures, using the new '-a ARCH' and '-B OPT=VALUE' flags. - For example, put arm-linux-gcc etc. into your $PATH, and point - systemtap at the target kernel build tree with: - stap -a arm -B CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux- -r /build/tree [...] - The -B option is passed to kbuild make. -r identifies the already - configured/built kernel tree and -a its architecture (kbuild ARCH=...). - Systemtap will infer -p4. - - The systemtap notion of "architecture" now matches the kernel's, rather than that of "uname -m". This means that 32-bit i386 family are all known as "i386" rather than "i386" or "i686"; "ppc64" as "powerpc"; -- 2.43.5