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From: swift <swift@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-doc-cvs@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: gentoo-mips-faq.xml
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:04:31
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1 swift 05/08/30 19:04:02
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20 --- gentoo-mips-faq.xml 9 Aug 2005 13:55:27 -0000 1.4
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23 <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
24 -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/gentoo-mips-faq.xml,v 1.4 2005/08/09 13:55:27 swift Exp $ -->
25 +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/gentoo-mips-faq.xml,v 1.5 2005/08/30 19:04:02 swift Exp $ -->
26
27 <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
28 <guide link="/doc/en/draft/gentoo-mips-faq.xml">
29 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
30 <license/>
31
32 <version>1.0</version>
33 -<date>2005-08-09</date>
34 +<date>2005-08-30</date>
35
36 <chapter>
37 <title>About this document</title>
38 @@ -336,9 +336,9 @@
39
40 <p>
41 For the first one an easy way to find out is to have a look at the
42 -<uri link="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mips-requirements.xml">Gentoo/MIPS
43 +<uri link="/doc/en/mips-requirements.xml">Gentoo/MIPS
44 requirements page</uri>. This will tell you if the system you've got can
45 -theoretically run Gentoo/MIPS. I've also written a
46 +theoretically run Gentoo/MIPS. Stuart has also written a
47 <uri link="http://stuartl.longlandclan.hopto.org/gentoo/mips/">hardware support
48 database</uri> in which users may contribute their experiences. This can help
49 measure how well Gentoo/MIPS runs on a particular machine.
50 @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@
51 <p>
52 If you've looked at the Gentoo/MIPS Hardware Requirements page, you've probably
53 noticed there are a LOT of machines we don't support. In the case of SGI
54 -hardware, on some of the machines very little is known about them, not enough
55 +hardware, very little is known about some of them, not enough
56 to successfully port Linux to them.
57 </p>
58
59 @@ -405,7 +405,10 @@
60
61 <p>
62 So for those of you who are running R4000-class CPUs, try a <c>mips3</c> or
63 -<c>mipsel3</c> stage tarball.<br />
64 +<c>mipsel3</c> stage tarball.
65 +</p>
66 +
67 +<p>
68 For those running R5000-class or later CPUs, try a <c>mips4</c> or
69 <c>mipsel4</c> stage tarball.
70 </p>
71 @@ -427,10 +430,10 @@
72
73 <p>
74 This is generally caused by using the wrong stage tarball. If you try to run a
75 -<c>mips4</c> userland on a <c>mips3</c> CPU, you'll get an <c>illegal
76 -instruction</c> error message. Likewise, if you have a Big Endian CPU and you
77 -try running Little Endian code on it, you'll get told <c>cannot execute binary
78 -file</c>.
79 +<c>mips4</c> userland on a <c>mips3</c> CPU, you'll get an <e>illegal
80 +instruction</e> error message. Likewise, if you have a Big Endian CPU and you
81 +try running Little Endian code on it, you'll get told <e>cannot execute binary
82 +file</e>.
83 </p>
84
85 <p>
86 @@ -474,7 +477,7 @@
87 <b>Have you disabled packet MTU discovery and set the port range?</b><br />
88 SGI boxes require <path>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc</path> = 1 and
89 <path>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range</path> = "2048 32767". See <uri
90 - link="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-mips.xml?part=1&amp;chap=2#doc_chap4">the
91 + link="/doc/en/handbook/handbook-mips.xml?part=1&amp;chap=2#doc_chap4">the
92 Gentoo/MIPS handbook</uri>.
93 </li>
94 <li>
95
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