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Hi All, |
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I've been rather quiet lately, largely due to university activities |
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absorbing about 98% of my time, and other projects absorbing much of the |
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remaining 2%. But nonetheless, I'm still plodding along with testing, |
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and still intending to stick around despite the departures around me. |
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As people would know, Lemote were kind enough to donate two of their |
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Fulong desktop computers to enable support of Gentoo on their platform. |
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I'm pleased to announce that Gentoo works out-of-the-box for a |
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console-only system, and only needs a few small patches for X to work |
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(provided in overlays [1] and [2]). |
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My intention was to test these patches on SGI systems to check they |
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didn't break compatibility there before merging them into the main tree, |
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however time has beaten me and I haven't had the opportunity. With this |
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being my final semester at university, and work experience two days a |
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week, I don't expect this situation to improve. |
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An alternative however, I'd like to propose is the addition of a 'lm2e' |
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local USE flag to the affected ebuilds, which are: |
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x11-base/xorg-server |
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x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati |
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x11-libs/libdrm |
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It'll be unmasked in the Cobalt profiles (which the Loongson platform |
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shares), and can simply be added to the USE variable on these systems. |
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It won't affect Cobalt as I believe running an X server on those systems |
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would be a pointless exercise. |
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If there aren't any complaints, I'll look into getting this done |
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possibly next weekend. At the moment, zhenghe (one of the boxes here) |
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has been reformatted, I'm setting up Gentoo 2008.0 on it, so I'll be |
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testing everything as I go. |
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-- |
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Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter) .'''. |
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Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : |
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' |
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I haven't lost my mind... |
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...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. |
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Footnotes: |
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1. My personal overlay at git://git.longlandclan.yi.org/overlay.git -- |
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browseable at http://git.longlandclan.yi.org/?p=overlay.git;a=summary |
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2. Gentoo CN overlay at http://www.gentoo-cn.org/gitweb/?p=loongson |
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