Gentoo Archives: gentoo-mips

From: Stuart Longland <redhatter@g.o>
To: gentoo-mips@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] bootstrap.sh on asus wl500g
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:02:47
Message-Id: 432AD06D.7020205@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mips] bootstrap.sh on asus wl500g by Hardave Riar
1 Hardave Riar wrote:
2 > Jason Pepas wrote:
3 >
4 >> and the profile like so:
5 >>
6 >> make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/mips/2005.0
7 >
8 >
9 > That's the wrong profile for uclibc stages, this will try to replace
10 > uclibc with glibc and that's a bad thing. You should probablly be using
11 > /usr/portage/profile/uclibc/mips. Using the uclibc stages it should not
12 > try to build glibc like it is below.
13 >
14 >> any ideas? I see the mips project website was just updated today, and I
15 >> just realized last night that the cobalt images are little endian (the
16 >> asus wl500g is little endian), so I'll try chrooting into one of those
17 >> images next.
18 >
19 >
20 > Don't bother using the cobalt stages, the wl500g has no where near
21 > enough memory to run a glibc system.
22
23 Not to mention, the Cobalt stages are MIPS IV, and therefore includes
24 some 64-bit instructions, the WL500g will be MIPS32, and does not
25 understand 64-bit instructions.
26
27 So you can expect illegal instructions left, right & centre.
28
29 As Stephen has pointed out too, messing with CHOST is asking for it... I
30 speak from experience. :-)
31 (tried it on my x86-based laptop ... boy did I have fun finding the
32 pieces and putting them back together again :-/)
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