>>>>> Jim Pick writes: Jim> Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 12:12:22PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I've appropriated a mipsel machine (Cobalt Qube2) here at work >> > (Transvirtual) on which I'm going to try to get debian-mips running >> > and help out with the port. >> > >> > I just thought I'd mention it... >> >> Afaik the Qube2 is "mipsel" means - Little Endian ...
Jim> For sure. Yesterday, I managed to get Debian installed in a chroot Jim> environment, and I can ssh into it. Yay. Thanks a lot for all the Jim> work you've done! Jim> I'm still looking for a gcc .deb though - I couldn't find one on your Jim> site (or anybody else's for that matter). Hopefully, I can use Jim> 'alien' on a mipsel RPM to get something to start with. Jim> I'm going to look at the glibc issues too. I worked through all that Jim> stuff on ARM, so I'll see what I can do with MIPS. Maybe we can use a Jim> CVS version of glibc (I think we did that for ARM). If you're looking at glibc, please work closely together with me - and read <http://www.suse.de/~aj/glibc-mips.html>. You need the glibc 2.2 CVS version, 2.1 will never work. I do have some strange problems with glibc 2.2 on the Cobalt machines, it might be an endianess issue in gcc, binutils or glibc :-(. Another problem is that the Cobalt machines only have Linux 2.0 - and glibc 2.2 for MIPS will not run on such an old kernel. The headers are not compatible at all. Jim> I'm doing some embedded mips stuff at work, and having an up-to-date Jim> native compile environment for mips is going to be invaluable to me. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
