Gentoo/MIPS: Little Endian MIPS 1 stages ready for testing
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Hi All…
Well, it seems I’m done building the MIPS1 stages for little-endian MIPS well ahead of time. I used one of the Lemote Fulong systems to build these, and had stage 1, 2 and 3 done in about a day and a half — which is a record for me — the Qube2 normally takes about a week, and it’s still chugging away at stage 1.
You’ll find all the generic stages on my devspace for now. I’d greatly appreciate it if some brave users could give them a try and let me know how they go. I’m doing some tests now, and things look promising, apart from guile failing a “make check”, everything seems to be going fine. These will work on any MMU-equipped little-endian MIPS box with sufficient RAM (~128MB… 64MB if you’re absolutely desperate, but you won’t be able to rebuild system packages like gcc and glibc).
The MIPS4 builds will be a little while, since the Lemote boxes only implement up to MIPS3, I can’t use them to directly build the Cobalt stages, thus they’re being done on the Qube2. I’ll let you know as things progress, but I expect it’ll be tomorrow before I have a stage1 tarball available for MIPS4.