From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EABPK-0002qj-Tp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:04:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7UJ2AUS011714; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:02:10 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7UJ29Ql027187 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:02:09 GMT Message-Id: <200508301902.j7UJ29Ql027187@robin.gentoo.org> Received: from lark.gentoo.osuosl.org ([140.211.166.177] helo=lark.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EABP7-0008T3-2D for gentoo-doc-cvs@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:04:17 +0000 Received: by lark.gentoo.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:04:02 +0000 From: "swift" Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:04:02 +0000 To: gentoo-doc-cvs@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: gentoo-mips-faq.xml Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-doc-cvs@gentoo.org Reply-to: docs-team@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 3c9696c0-be0a-43c9-b54d-c08bd6266b4a X-Archives-Hash: ff990f880c170ef009c91176a0ddab58 swift 05/08/30 19:04:02 Modified: xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft gentoo-mips-faq.xml Log: Last few changes Revision Changes Path 1.5 +14 -11 xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/gentoo-mips-faq.xml file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/gentoo-mips-faq.xml?rev=1.5&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/gentoo-mips-faq.xml?rev=1.5&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/gentoo-mips-faq.xml.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.5&cvsroot=gentoo Index: gentoo-mips-faq.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/gentoo-mips-faq.xml,v retrieving revision 1.4 retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -r1.4 -r1.5 --- gentoo-mips-faq.xml 9 Aug 2005 13:55:27 -0000 1.4 +++ gentoo-mips-faq.xml 30 Aug 2005 19:04:02 -0000 1.5 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - + @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ 1.0 -2005-08-09 +2005-08-30 About this document @@ -336,9 +336,9 @@

For the first one an easy way to find out is to have a look at the -Gentoo/MIPS +Gentoo/MIPS requirements page. This will tell you if the system you've got can -theoretically run Gentoo/MIPS. I've also written a +theoretically run Gentoo/MIPS. Stuart has also written a hardware support database in which users may contribute their experiences. This can help measure how well Gentoo/MIPS runs on a particular machine. @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@

If you've looked at the Gentoo/MIPS Hardware Requirements page, you've probably noticed there are a LOT of machines we don't support. In the case of SGI -hardware, on some of the machines very little is known about them, not enough +hardware, very little is known about some of them, not enough to successfully port Linux to them.

@@ -405,7 +405,10 @@

So for those of you who are running R4000-class CPUs, try a mips3 or -mipsel3 stage tarball.
+mipsel3 stage tarball. +

+ +

For those running R5000-class or later CPUs, try a mips4 or mipsel4 stage tarball.

@@ -427,10 +430,10 @@

This is generally caused by using the wrong stage tarball. If you try to run a -mips4 userland on a mips3 CPU, you'll get an illegal -instruction error message. Likewise, if you have a Big Endian CPU and you -try running Little Endian code on it, you'll get told cannot execute binary -file. +mips4 userland on a mips3 CPU, you'll get an illegal +instruction error message. Likewise, if you have a Big Endian CPU and you +try running Little Endian code on it, you'll get told cannot execute binary +file.

@@ -474,7 +477,7 @@ Have you disabled packet MTU discovery and set the port range?
SGI boxes require /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc = 1 and /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range = "2048 32767". See the + link="/doc/en/handbook/handbook-mips.xml?part=1&chap=2#doc_chap4">the Gentoo/MIPS handbook.

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