Re: [gentoo-mips] MIPS32 little-endian Gentoo rootfs

[Matt Turner]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Manuel Lauss
<manuel.lauss@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've uploaded an updated version of my Gentoo installation for
> little-endian softfloat MIPS32(r1)
> processors (and of course newer ones).
>
> Highlights include:
> - full native toolchain.  All packages have been compiled natively on
> target hardware.
> - based on portage snapshot from 111008
> - binutils-git from 111007 to work around udev and kernel build failures
> - firefox-7.0.1
> - rebuilt most packages due to libpng-1.5 and other library updates
> - python built against Linux-3.x
> - latest ~arch packages
>
> http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/README.txt
>
> http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-rootfs-111008.tar.xz
> http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-rootfs-111008.tar.CONTENTS
> http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-rootfs-debugsyms-111008.tar.xz
> http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-rootfs-debugsyms-111008.tar.CONTENTS
> http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-packages-111008.tar
> [still uploading]
> http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-packages-111008.tar.CONTENTS
>
> Happy hacking,
>       Manuel Lauss

Thanks a lot! This should help me build mips32 little endian stages now.

Is floating point emulation handled by the kernel, or do glibc and gcc
have to be compiled to support it? I tried building mips32-softfloat
stages before, but ran into library incompatibilities. I can't see any
value at all in providing mips32 hardfloat stages if the userland is
different.

Thanks,
Matt