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Hi Joshua, |
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:36:16PM -0400, Kumba wrote: |
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> Manuel Lauss wrote: |
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>> Hello! |
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>> For the last 3 years I've been "maintaining" a modest collection of |
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>> packages for generic little-endian MIPS32 softfloat systems (mainly for my |
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>> Alchemy hardware). It includes a lot of stuff which is currently |
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>> use-masked |
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>> on MIPS (qt4, scanner support, etc; almost all run-tested on real |
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>> hardware). |
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>> Is there interest in the Gentoo(-MIPS) community for these packages? |
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>> A list of packages can be found at [1] as well as the custom portage |
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>> profile |
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>> which was used to build them at [2]. |
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>> The package tarball is ~1.1GB in size; 90% of the packages have been built |
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>> with |
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>> gcc-4.3.3. Mainly generic stuff I needed to do my work plus a few |
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>> just-for-fun things like KDE-4.2.2 (yes it runs, but at a glacial pace). |
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>> Thanks! |
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>> Manuel Lauss |
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>> [1] |
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>> http://mlau.at/files/gentoo/mips32elsf/mips32elsf-packages-090420.tar.CONTENTS |
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>> [2] http://mlau.at/files/gentoo/mips32elsf/mips32elsf-etc-portage.tar.bz2 |
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> This is pretty neat. Although, our focus is more on the bigger MIPS |
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> workstation, like the SGI stuff and even some of the Longsoon machines. We |
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> actually have a separate team that focuses more on the embedded machines, |
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> including embedded ARM, MIPS, and other related equipment. |
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Although Alchemys are lacking a FPU and a decent GFX accelerator, I think |
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performance-wise they're not that slower than SGI boxes. |
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> I'd post this to the gentoo-embedded list, and you might find a few people |
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> over there interested. Some of the methods you used for building these |
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> packages, including any toolchain changes, eclass/ebuild changes, might be |
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> useful to them over there. |
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I actually didn't change any ebuilds, it's as "vanilla" as the Gentoo |
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installations on my x64 machines (all packages have been built natively). |
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I'll contact the embedded folks! |
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Thanks! |
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Manuel Lauss |