Re: [gentoo-mips] MIPS32 Little-Endian softfloat packages, anyone interested?

[Kumba]

Manuel Lauss wrote:
> Hello!
>
> For the last 3 years I've been "maintaining" a modest collection of
> packages for generic little-endian MIPS32 softfloat systems (mainly for my
> Alchemy hardware).  It includes a lot of stuff which is currently use-masked
> on MIPS (qt4, scanner support, etc; almost all run-tested on real hardware).
>
> Is there interest in the Gentoo(-MIPS) community for these packages?
> A list of packages can be found at [1] as well as the custom portage profile
> which was used to build them at [2].
>
> The package tarball is ~1.1GB in size; 90% of the packages have been built with
> gcc-4.3.3.  Mainly generic stuff I needed to do my work plus a few
> just-for-fun things like KDE-4.2.2 (yes it runs, but at a glacial pace).
>
> Thanks!
> 	Manuel Lauss
>
> [1] http://mlau.at/files/gentoo/mips32elsf/mips32elsf-packages-090420.tar.CONTENTS
> [2] http://mlau.at/files/gentoo/mips32elsf/mips32elsf-etc-portage.tar.bz2

This is pretty neat.  Although, our focus is more on the bigger MIPS 
workstation, like the SGI stuff and even some of the Longsoon machines.  We 
actually have a separate team that focuses more on the embedded machines, 
including embedded ARM, MIPS, and other related equipment.

I'd post this to the gentoo-embedded list, and you might find a few people over 
there interested.  Some of the methods you used for building these packages, 
including any toolchain changes, eclass/ebuild changes, might be useful to them 
over there.


Thanks!

-- 
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
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