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Jason Pepas wrote: |
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> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:48:34AM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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>>>I put openwrt |
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>>>on it and chrooted into a |
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>>>experimental/mips/embedded/stages/stage1-mipsel-uclibc-2005.0.tar.bz2 |
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>>>tarball, with the idea of changing the profile and rebuiling. |
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>>Ok, stop right here. Do you realize how little memory this device has? |
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>> You would be lucky to even be able to build some of the more simple |
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>>programs without some sort of ICE or out of memory error. |
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> I have 256MB of swap enabled - it shouldn't be a problem. |
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Yes, it's a big problem. |
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>>That is not even close to the correct profile for uclibc. You really |
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>>want /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/mips |
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> Well, I want to switch to glibc, but I couldn't get any mips3 or mips4 |
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> stages running (I think they are the wrong endian-ness). So I thought |
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> the correct thing to was grab a stage1 and change the profile. |
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Of course they are the wrong endianness. Not only that, but they |
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contain instructions that will only run on 64-bit cpus. |
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> Am I going about this the wrong way? I am fairly new to gentoo. |
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Not just the wrong way, but the impossible way. |
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> Hmm, that sounds more like what I want to do. What I really want is a |
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> stage1-mips1-2005.1.tar.bz2, but that doesn't exist. Can I use crossdev |
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> to accomplish that? |
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No. |
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-Steve |
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