Gentoo/Yeeloong Status

Well… I’ve been quiet, but slowly, I’m preparing what will become a port of Gentoo/MIPS to the Lemote Yeeloong.

I have it booting off a USB HDD for now, sans X11, but I’m working on that.  The kernel at present needs some patches not yet present in the Linux/MIPS kernel tree.  To build a kernel, you also need GCC 4.4.0 (which supports -march=loongson2f) and binutils (2.19.51.0.2 or later) with this patch.  I’m looking into what is necessary in order to get these patches into our tree.  Patched ebuilds for both are in my overlay.

Once that is done… next attention will be to Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and Mozilla Thunderbird, both of which have been lagging on MIPS since I took my hiatus.  I’m still running to/from Laidley, but with the travel time… this would seem an excellent moment for package testing once I get Gentoo installed on this machine.

Here’s hoping I can return with some goodies for everyone shortly.

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3 Responses to “Gentoo/Yeeloong Status”

  1. Christian Says:
    July 24th, 2009 at 5:00 am

    You know about the Longsoon overlay by r0bertz? http://www.gentoo-cn.org/gitweb/?p=loongson.git

  2. Redhatter (VK4MSL) Says:
    July 24th, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    Yep, I am aware of it… I even mirror it on my own site here. Zhang Le has done some excellent work for the Loongson platform, porting a lot of packages and in general, doing lots of maintenance to make Gentoo/MIPS viable, at least for Lemote users.

    I intend to migrate much of this into the main portage tree where practical.

  3. Christian Says:
    July 24th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    Ok, I wanted to avoid that you duplicate work. Thanks for your dedication and I plan to purchase a Yeelong soon.

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