From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30891 invoked by uid 1002); 12 Sep 2003 15:22:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13096 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2003 15:22:44 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:22:43 -0500 From: splite-gentoo@sigint.cs.purdue.edu To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030912152243.GA3969@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> References: <1063226103.3909.18.camel@ht.gentoo.org> <20030910215454.GB8827@cerberus.oppresses.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030910215454.GB8827@cerberus.oppresses.us> X-Disclaimer: Any similarity to an opinion of Purdue is purely coincidental Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Beginning of official Gentoo Itanium 2 porting effort X-Archives-Salt: 68690364-3a2e-4d2e-a937-ce45f7c11f3c X-Archives-Hash: cf94200f95ecc312f1a5cddaa3647ac5 On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 05:54:54PM -0400, Jon Portnoy wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:35:03PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > HP has generously given us a very nice dual-CPU Itanium 2 system with > > 10GB of RAM on extended loan to allow us to port Gentoo Linux to it. I > > currently have it set up on my LAN and can give out access to > > experienced Gentoo developers and possibly some non-developers who might > > have already begun work on porting Gentoo to IA64. > > Steven Plite (splite-gentoo@sigint.cs.purdue.edu) has done quite a bit > of work in this area - he's currently in the new dev pipeline. It wasn't easy getting in either. I usually take a size 36. > > There are several people on the Gentoo dev team who are very motivated > > to get our IA64 rock-solid as soon as we possibly can, so I'd expect our > > progress on IA64 to move along very very quickly. If you have the time > > and experience to help in some capacity, please email Seemant Kulleen at > > seemant@gentoo.org and cc me (drobbins@gentoo.org) and tell us how you > > can help. > > > > The machine is currently running Debian. Porting plan is: > > > > 1) port Portage to Debian/IA64 > > 2) use Portage to build an IA64 stage1 in a chroot > > 3) use Portage to build an IA64 stage3 in a chroot > > 4) get it to boot > > 5) convert system over to native Gentoo operation Did all that. Was pretty straightforward, even for a Gentoo noob like me. > > 6) expand support for IA64 throughout the Portage tree I made enough IA64 ebuilds to have a usable headless system, which was all my users needed. Sometime I'll hook up a head and see if X works. > > 7) release Don't forget: 8) ... 9) profit! > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Daniel > > Steven Plite mailed me today and said he'd put a working stage1 up on a > FTP tonight - hopefully he can drop us a mail about it soon. My annual late-summer head cold is slowing me down, but the tarball's finally up: ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/splite/stage1-ia64-1.4-20030912.tar.bz2 I made a cut-down portage tree with enough ebuilds to satisfy bootstrap.sh, along with an ia64 profile and a one-line patch to eutils.eclass. (Just grep for "ia64" to see the changes.) Instead of running "emerge sync" in the stage1 tree, just extract this tarball under usr/portage: ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/splite/usrportage-ia64-20030912.tar.bz2 Now you too can do a stage2. At least, it works for me in a chroot on a Gentoo/IA64 system. I no longer have a Debian/IA64 system to test it on, but I can't see why it wouldn't work. Next I'll work on updating my IA64 ebuilds to match the latest stable x86 versions; my local tree has gotten a bit stale. Also need to make an elilo ebuild, which is the only non-emerged bit I still have. Does anyone have experience making bootable IA64 CDs? That EFI stuff creeps me out. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list