From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B2BA139694 for ; Sun, 14 May 2017 03:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7260D21C06B; Sun, 14 May 2017 03:55:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from atomos.longlandclan.id.au (atomos.longlandclan.id.au [IPv6:2001:44b8:21ac:7000::1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0252E21C06B for ; Sun, 14 May 2017 03:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2001:44b8:21ac:7053:65::f3] (unknown [IPv6:2001:44b8:21ac:7053:65::f3]) by atomos.longlandclan.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F2A08208B215 for ; Sun, 14 May 2017 13:55:00 +1000 (EST) To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org From: Stuart Longland Subject: [gentoo-mips] =?UTF-8?Q?n64_stages_for_mipsel=e2=80=a6_any_interest=3f?= Openpgp: id=BCA11879F4F93BE3DB0DEE72F954BBBB7948D546; url=https://stuartl.longlandclan.id.au/key.asc Message-ID: <48972734-ee5f-c966-b03a-48f134bbcab2@longlandclan.id.au> Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 13:54:56 +1000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 08a0be63-32aa-40e5-9628-704290433c8a X-Archives-Hash: a964a3694344d39b34fcfb4f525bb74f Hi all, I've decided to dust off the old Lemote Yeeloong that I have kicking around for use as a throw-around netbook for on-the-road use. The aim is to have a machine that can do some basic web browsing (using a decent browser, dillo won't cut it), image editing, and maybe some amateur radio stuff (yes, done PSK31 with this beast before, operating as VK4MM, so it does work). I've found though that Firefox won't build on n32 (build system misbehaves, it does the same on AMD64 x32 too), and while o32 works, its performance is a little, lack-lustre. Thus as part of this, I am bootstrapping some n64 stages as an experiment. n64 of course isn't as fast as n32, there's a memory consumption hit, but at least it doesn't suffer the limitations that o32 has. I did take OpenBSD for a spin on this machine (they use n64), and it seemed snappy enough, so we'll try Linux again. I have cross-compiled a n64 environment from AMD64, and so far, I have set up QEMU to run a mips64r2 little-endian VM with 2GB RAM to build the stages with. Catalyst is building the first stage1 as I type this. I suspect this will take a fortnight or so… I have contemplating resurrecting the old Qube II for this, but it can't compete on RAM, and I haven't yet built the binaries with the NOP fix flag for them to run on Loongson. If I get some stages built, is there any interest in the community? I'm willing to throw them up somewhere where they can be mirrored (I can host here, but my uplink is ~1Mbps) and made accessible to all. I can also do mips (big-endian) builds if there is sufficient interest, I still have an r4k6 Indy and rm5k2 O2 that can test such builds. (Also have a IP28 and IP30, but neither are operational AFAIK. They do make *great* door-stops however.) Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.