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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PS2 and Gentoo Linux
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:56:51
Message-Id: 200411050857.19853.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] PS2 and Gentoo Linux by "Stephen P. Becker"
1 On Friday 05 November 2004 08:50 am, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
2 > Vicente GarcĂ­a Diez wrote:
3 > > Thanks in advance :)
4
5 your best bet would be to get on irc.freenode.net and idle in #gentoo-mips
6
7 all the devs that have ps2 and play with Gentoo on it hang in there
8
9 > Really, the problem with gentoo on PS2 is that you need a *very* *very*
10 > old toolchain, and you have to use a 2.2 kernel from what I understand.
11 > When it comes down to it, it really isn't worth buying a PS2 just to
12 > run linux on it, as you will probably be very disappointed.
13
14 actually there has been a lot of work over at ps2dev.org to update the
15 toolchain and the last kernel that is known to work is something like 2.4.19
16 -mike
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