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Hi there, |
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In a long and tedious journey through LFS helper systems, cross-compiler |
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environments and building netbooting old green boxes off bootp, I |
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finally managed to put together a working up-to-date gentoo running on |
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the SGI Octane. And yes, all the packages are the latest and greatest. |
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It has all the hardware working (even audio!), runs on kernel 4.12 and |
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even runs Xorg - IF you downgrade xorg to a 2012-ish version using raw |
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force. |
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Here's the tarball: |
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https://rephlex.de/blog/2019/05/10/gentoo-octane-a-modern-gnu-linux-system-for-the-sgi-octane-workstation/ |
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Enjoy! |
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Maybe somebody working on gentoo/MIPS could use this to build a proper |
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gentoo release (?), and maybe this is even useful for other MIPS machines. |
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Of course, the kernel sources are included - and boy, they contain some |
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assorted patches to support all the funny hardware! |
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------ Slightly OT below this line ------ |
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You read that right, I hat xorg running, but in an old version. The only |
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thing that keeps us from having a *current* version of xorg running on |
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the octane's impact card is is the fact that xorg changed its module API |
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around 2010-2012. |
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If someone could help modifying the xf86-video-impact module init |
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functions to work under a current version of xorg, we could make impact |
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great again (the head of current work on this matter is here: |
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https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/rephlex/xf86-video-impact) |
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Regards, |
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Florian 'rephlex' Panzer |
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https://rephlex.de |
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