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I was wondering if gentoo-mips is a right distribution/tool for me. |
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Here's the summary what I have and what I want to achieve. |
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I am interested in porting apps for wrt54 and similar hardware (they |
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have Broadcom CPUs). When I connect a 2 GB usb-stick to such a device |
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(i.e., to ASUS WL-500g Deluxe or to any other device listed on |
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http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware), a small router could turn into |
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a really useful, rock-stable (no moving parts like hard-disk, fan etc.), |
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cheap, small, quiet, multi-purpose device (domain controller, print |
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server, web server etc.). |
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As compiling software on these devices directly isn't really a good |
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idea, at first I thought I'd just cross-compile the software. |
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However, very often, cross-compiling is not that easy (sometimes |
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involves lots of patching, which in my case turned out to be duplicating |
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someone's job). |
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So I searched the web a bit, and came to a conclusion: |
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I have to run gentoo-mips in qemu on my x86 hardware, compile/port apps |
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there, strip the binaries, and move them to these tiny routers. |
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Is my thinking correct? |
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Will such compiled software compiled on gentoo-mips run on |
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Broadcom-based routers? |
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Or maybe I just should give up this idea, as it's totally wrong from the |
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beginning? |
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I could check it myself, but as I failed to run the gentoo-mips livecd |
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in quemu, I'd like to know if I'm doing something reasonable before I |
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invest some time in running gentoo-mips on qemu. |
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Tomek |
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http://wpkg.org |
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WPKG - software management with Samba |
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