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The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Browsing Posts published in September, 2010

Hi all… After a long wait, Gentoo/MIPS is on the comeback trail. Okay, I’ll stick my hand up and admit I did a bit of carnage by pulling keywords on vim-7.0 (which might’ve worked with older releases but did not work on this latest release) however we’ll soon have that cleaned up. We’re still in [...]

Hi all… Just to let you know, there will be new stages to replace the ones I uploaded recently. Having found a solution for the issues with building on the Lemote computers, I now have MIPS-I and MIPS-III builds going simultaneously on the two Fulong systems. MIPS-IV is being handled by my much slower Qube2. [...]

Looking back in my email history, I receive a lot of emails that are either back in the past by some significant margin (i.e. 01-01-1970… before I was even born) or way off in the future (in 2038). I just received one today which was a month old. In almost all cases, these emails are [...]

Hi all… A little note regarding the usage of the latest MIPS-I stages on Fuloong 2E… I found I had a hard-lock compiling some applications which can be possibly traced back to an issue regarding the NOP instruction on the Loongson CPU.  I understood it to only affect 2F-series systems, and also assumed latest binutils [...]

Hi all, Well, after a long plod the stage 3 for MIPS-I little-endian systems is uploaded. I’m working on MIPS-III and MIPS-IV stages, as well as equivalents for big-endian systems. Two things with this stage 3 tarball. First and foremost, /dev seems to be empty. I think this is most definitely a bug, and I’ll [...]

Observant viewers may notice that I’ve begun uploading some of the stage tarballs. The first of the stages built is the stage 1 tarball for MIPS-I little-endian. Stage 2 is building as I type this, hopefully by this weekend it’ll be uploaded and stage 3 will be on its way. I’ll let you know when [...]