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On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Manuel Lauss |
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> <manuel.lauss@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hi Matt, |
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>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> If you'd like to help offset the cost of electricity used to create |
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>>> these and future stages, please send me a private email. :) |
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>> First of all, thanks for fixing Gentoo on MIPS |
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>> What kind of machines are you looking for? I suspect you're aiming for |
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>> the bigger 64bit machines (SiByte, SGI) ? |
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>> I'd like to help and I routinely (re)build Gentoo on little-endian MIPS32 |
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>> machines (o32 ABI); but I don't have any 64bit machines. |
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> Great. Thanks :) |
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> I plan to build mips32 stages, but I don't really know much about this |
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> type of hardware. As you guessed, I'm more interested in 64-bit |
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> systems. |
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> Are there big-endian mips32 systems worth supporting? My little-endian |
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> userland seems to be dead and I've been building these big endian |
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> stages, so I haven't had time to revive it yet. |
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I think almost every little broadcom/atheros-based router supported |
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by OpenWRT is a potential candidate; they certainly outnumber the |
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available big SGI boxes :) I don't know which endianness though, |
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but being networking machines I suppose them being big-endian |
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makes sense. |
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My test hardware is bi-endian, but I never ran it big-endian since I've |
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no kernel for them. Let me just try and figure out what's necessary.. |
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> If you would, please join the #gentoo-mips IRC channel. :) |
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Done. |
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Thanks, |
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Manuel Lauss |