On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 09:29:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to help keep DECstation support alive for Etch. > > I have plenty of hardware (DS 5000/240, 5000/150, 5000/120, and > Personal DS 5000/33 and 5000/25), but free time is short (as it > is for everyone). I'd appreciate any advice on the best way to > begin - just start trying the daily built images?
Trying some recent images might help - personally I was unable to get very far with the gxemul emulator and linux 2.6 kernels but I can't say for sure wether the issue is in linux 2.6 or in gxemul. Testing on an actual DECstation would at least tell us that - who knows, maybe it even works on actual hardware :) The other thing, if you have decent hardware for mipsel compiles, would be to compile a few kernel trees and see what works. The linux-mips 2.4 tree seems to work just fine with gxemul. I've not been too lucky trying to work with various 2.6 kernel trees though. Having one known-working 2.6 tree would be a very major help as we would then have a base to port changes to the debian kernel tree and/or fix the emulator if it behaves differently from native hardware. I believe the plan is that all architectures must be migrated to linux 2.6 for etch ? Otherwise it should be easy enough to make a working linux 2.4 tree for DECstations (we already have working 2.4 kernels). Cheers, -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse "Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being the villain in a James Bond movie." -- Dennis Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
