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On 05/07/2014 03:06, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> There are usually blockers and stuff due to MIPS being ~arch but |
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> catalyst, as a tool, works fine. |
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> The livecd stages and netboots, however, were much more |
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>> problematic. |
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> I don't think we do that anymore |
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Haven't in a *long* time. However, it's been on my todo list for a good |
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while now. The thing that killed netboots was the great uclibc break |
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several years ago where a chicken-and-egg scenario arose. To compile from |
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uclibc-0.9.27 to .28, you needed ~gcc-4.4 (I think, maybe it was 3.4...). |
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However, you couldn't compile the required version of gcc, linked against |
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uclibc, without the .28 version. So that broke a *lot* of people. |
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I have no idea how that was eventually resolved, but without uclibc, |
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netboots at the time were just too massive for the SGI Indy's to boot. |
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You'd get a "Not enough space in a FreeMemeoryArea() from ARCS. |
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Though...nowadays, I think that ARCS error has something to do with byte |
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alignment and not size. Seems if you compile things in or out of the kernel |
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to increase or decrease its size, you can get a size that ARCS will be happy |
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with. |
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LiveCDs, OTOH...I do not look forward to even attempting those. The two SGI |
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LiveCDs I produced used Gnome GDM, which was possible without sucking in |
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half of Gnome back then, which is not possible today, as far as I know. I |
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don't know what's a good login manager these days, but it might be back to |
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classic XDM if I do attempt the things. |
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>> If you can still send me at least one of your stage3 spec files, that'd be |
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>> appreciated. It's been 5-6 years since I last messed with catalyst. The |
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>> Octane was my build platform, but combined with the bitrot that prevented it |
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>> from booting, moving, a new job, etc, I never got around to setting up stage |
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>> building on the O2. Now that I can boot Octane again, I can at least |
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>> recover my old spec files, though. Might help if I ever attempt to tackle |
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>> the livecd or netboot builds again. |
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> I will email you a complete set of stage1/2/3 for, say, mips3 and then |
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> it's easy to figure out what do change for the rest :) |
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</smirk> |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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kumba@g.o |
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4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And |
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our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |
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