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Yuri Vasilevski wrote: |
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> I intend to write two HOWTOs, first one on how to |
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> configure and run softgun on Gentoo (I hope to post |
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> this one in a day or so), and another one on how to |
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> bootstrap and run Gentoo on softgun (this one will |
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> take a little bit longer). |
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That'd be great. |
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>>I've tried using the image at sourceforge, but running 'emerge' always |
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>>crashes it, I'm assuming it runs out of memory. |
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> I think that this is probably because souftgun does not |
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> implement any math coprocessor nor can give exceptions |
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> about that to the kernel, so you can not run anything |
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> that is not softfloat compiled (like Gentoo's stages) |
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> Yuri. |
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I've used uclibc's buildroot to build a softfloat root, including |
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portage and python, and am able to nfs mount it and chroot into it. |
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Running emerge always gives me something like this: |
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[root@hello /]# emerge portage |
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oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2 |
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DMA per-cpu: |
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cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 |
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cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 |
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Normal per-cpu: empty |
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HighMem per-cpu: empty |
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Free pages: 256kB (0kB HighMem) |
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Active:1786 inactive:864 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:64 slab:504 |
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mapped:1370 pagetables:23 |
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DMA free:256kB min:128kB low:256kB high:384kB active:7144kB |
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inactive:3456kB present:16384kB |
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protections[]: 64 64 64 |
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Normal free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB |
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protections[]: 0 0 0 |
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HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:256kB high:384kB active:0kB inactive:0kB |
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present:0kB |
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protections[]: 0 0 0 |
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DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 2*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB |
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0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 256kB |
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Normal: empty |
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HighMem: empty |
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Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0 |
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Out of Memory: Killed process 51 (emerge). |
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Terminated |
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Anyway, I look forward to reading your HOWTOs. |
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Cheers, |
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Tim |
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