From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EqXKq-0004oW-81 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:58:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBPEwgmO003783; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:58:42 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBPEwgTr017636 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:58:42 GMT Received: from [213.239.212.131] (helo=mail2.syneticon.net) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EqXKb-0002uB-Mv for gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:58:41 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F69546046 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 15:58:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail2.syneticon.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (linux [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16540-19 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 15:58:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.10.1] (xdsl-81-173-147-66.netcologne.de [81.173.147.66]) by mail2.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 15:58:33 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43AEB38E.4060800@wpkg.org> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 15:58:22 +0100 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-4mdk (X11/20051221) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-mips] is gentoo-mips right for me? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at syneticon.de X-Archives-Salt: 9d83a794-5187-42f6-a835-2f53b56a0f26 X-Archives-Hash: b7ae03533168a420d9eee10d64aaee7a I was wondering if gentoo-mips is a right distribution/tool for me. Here's the summary what I have and what I want to achieve. I am interested in porting apps for wrt54 and similar hardware (they have Broadcom CPUs). When I connect a 2 GB usb-stick to such a device (i.e., to ASUS WL-500g Deluxe or to any other device listed on http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware), a small router could turn into a really useful, rock-stable (no moving parts like hard-disk, fan etc.), cheap, small, quiet, multi-purpose device (domain controller, print server, web server etc.). As compiling software on these devices directly isn't really a good idea, at first I thought I'd just cross-compile the software. However, very often, cross-compiling is not that easy (sometimes involves lots of patching, which in my case turned out to be duplicating someone's job). So I searched the web a bit, and came to a conclusion: I have to run gentoo-mips in qemu on my x86 hardware, compile/port apps there, strip the binaries, and move them to these tiny routers. Is my thinking correct? Will such compiled software compiled on gentoo-mips run on Broadcom-based routers? Or maybe I just should give up this idea, as it's totally wrong from the beginning? I could check it myself, but as I failed to run the gentoo-mips livecd in quemu, I'd like to know if I'm doing something reasonable before I invest some time in running gentoo-mips on qemu. -- Tomek http://wpkg.org WPKG - software management with Samba -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list