On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 11:38:16PM -0600, Stephen Hitchner wrote: > Hi, > Right now I have an old Indy sitting around, and a interest in helping > port linux to it. How do I start?? Are there any books/references that > would be good to read????????? At this moment the stuff that is passed > on through the mailing is lost way over my head...but I want that to > change = )
Have you ot ANY image you are able to boot ? If not - Get anything what might boot on it - Probably the Redhat for mips ... Ralf Baechle has done a lot packages for big endian mips i think. If you are that far - Get a working compiler/binutils (Might be difficult) I have good experiences with egcs 1.0.3a + mips patches + binutils 2.8.1 + mips patches. The binutils fail on some packages so i am compiling the failing ones with binutils CVS snapshot from anoncvs.cygnus.com (I use snapshort 991025) ... Then there is a LOT to fake and hack ... First - Get dpkg source package and extract it by hand (tar/patch) - Build the dpkg (Dselect will fail probably) - Install dpkg and all the surrounding perl script (dpkg-source, dpkg-xyz) in the appropriate places (Compare to your i386 debian system). After that try to extract packages and to compile them ... dpkg-source -x <package>.dsc && cd package && dpkg-buildpackage -b This will fail for most packages in the first run .. But one after another they will compile. I installed them into the RedHat aka HardHat distribution immediatly after i compiled them because then those utilitys are available. BTW: Your architecture is "mips" mine is "mipsel" for little endian ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5241-470566 ... The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is catastrophic and is repeatable ... Cisco Field Notice
