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On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:48:34AM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> >I put openwrt |
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> >on it and chrooted into a |
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> >experimental/mips/embedded/stages/stage1-mipsel-uclibc-2005.0.tar.bz2 |
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> >tarball, with the idea of changing the profile and rebuiling. |
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> Ok, stop right here. Do you realize how little memory this device has? |
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> You would be lucky to even be able to build some of the more simple |
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> programs without some sort of ICE or out of memory error. |
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I have 256MB of swap enabled - it shouldn't be a problem. |
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> That is not even close to the correct profile for uclibc. You really |
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> want /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/mips |
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Well, I want to switch to glibc, but I couldn't get any mips3 or mips4 |
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stages running (I think they are the wrong endian-ness). So I thought |
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the correct thing to was grab a stage1 and change the profile. |
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Am I going about this the wrong way? I am fairly new to gentoo. |
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> Uhhh...you realize you can't install glibc on a uclibc userland, right? |
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> This is from selecting the wrong profile, aside from the fact that |
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> glibc even doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of building on such a |
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> device. |
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> >any ideas? I see the mips project website was just updated today, and I |
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> >just realized last night that the cobalt images are little endian (the |
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> >asus wl500g is little endian), so I'll try chrooting into one of those |
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> >images next. |
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> That is an even worse idea. The cobalt stages are optimized for |
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> -march=mips4, which probably won't run on that cpu. Not only that, but |
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> they are glibc based, which is way too heavy to run on a wl500g |
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> The moral of this story is, a broadcom based router is not good for |
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> using gentoo in the capacity you are trying to. What you *really* want |
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> to do is emerge crossdev on a nice fast box, use that to build a |
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> crosstoolchain, and cross-compile a custom userland to run on your router. |
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Hmm, that sounds more like what I want to do. What I really want is a |
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stage1-mips1-2005.1.tar.bz2, but that doesn't exist. Can I use crossdev |
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to accomplish that? |
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Thanks, |
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Jason Pepas |
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