From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lw9eM-0004cT-R2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:40:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 558B0E0130; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:28:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from roarinelk.homelinux.net (fnoeppeil48.netpark.at [217.175.205.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA4DEE0130 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:28:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 10032 invoked by uid 1000); 21 Apr 2009 07:28:43 +0200 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:28:43 +0200 From: Manuel Lauss To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] MIPS32 Little-Endian softfloat packages, anyone interested? Message-ID: <20090421052843.GA9921@roarinelk.homelinux.net> References: <20090420180145.GC4890@roarinelk.homelinux.net> <49ED1500.8060705@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49ED1500.8060705@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: c3b985d7-8052-4ade-80e1-6a6622bbfd5e X-Archives-Hash: a1f3b442f1723f4ddc966aa98cef8d2a Hi Joshua, On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:36:16PM -0400, Kumba wrote: > 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. Although Alchemys are lacking a FPU and a decent GFX accelerator, I think performance-wise they're not that slower than SGI boxes. > 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. I actually didn't change any ebuilds, it's as "vanilla" as the Gentoo installations on my x64 machines (all packages have been built natively). I'll contact the embedded folks! Thanks! Manuel Lauss