From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc9Qg-0004JJ-Rv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:04:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 198531C017; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1DCB1C017 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 368D21BC0CD for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxa40 with SMTP id 40so1746494vxa.40 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.68.162 with SMTP id x2mr2073017vdt.116.1309410246116; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:04:06 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.52.158.168 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:03:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Turner Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:03:46 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-mips] Please test SGI mips stages To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a6d49445c9369b2c468205739e1d4fc8 Hi, I've completed a round of stages suitable for SGI mips systems. They're available here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~mattst88/mips-stages/ In order to use them, you really need to have an existing Linux installation (or BSD, perhaps?) since we don't have any working netboot or CD images. (Please respond if lack of bootable media is preventing you from testing. I really need to know what the demand is.) The stages are all multilib, meaning they support o32, n32 (default), and n64 ABIs. n32 is the default ABI and it gives a rather nice speed-up over the o32 ABI previously used. With multilib, glibc must be compiled three times, so if you have no need for the o32 and n64 ABIs, you may switch profiles and on your next glibc build, they'll be removed. Once removed, it's not trivial to get them back. If you wish to switch the default ABI of your system, you should switch to another multilib profile and recompile your system. The mips3 stage is compiled with -mfix-4000 -mfix-4400 so it should be suitable for any MIPS III system using R4xxx CPUs such as the Indigo, Indy, and Indigo2. The mips4 stage is suitable for systems with R5xxx CPUs such as the Indy and O2. The mips4-r10k stage (will be uploaded in a few hours) is suitable for supported R10k systems, such as the Indigo2 and Origin 2xx (and perhaps R10k O2s?). Please test and let me know of your results. If you are unable to test due to lack of boot media, please tell me what kind of systems you'd like boot media to be made for. Thanks! Matt PS: there are a rapidly diminishing number of bugs that prevent MIPS stages from being built without modifying the portage tree. They are listed here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354877 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355283 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358149 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373361 (for r10k stages) If you'd like to help offset the cost of electricity used to create these and future stages, please send me a private email. :)