* Javier Vasquez ([email protected]) [120708 01:09]: > Support on grub for the mini-pc was just announced on the most recent > grub release, which I think hadn't hit debian. I don't know if that > means keep using the grub-yeeloong version or there will be a new > binary for fullong. However with the yeloong version so far loading > the grub menu from pmon had not been possible for me, :-).
The version in stable should be able to work, just not as firmware but only as bootloader. > I'm curious about some prior comments about using the mini-pc as slow > desktop replacement. I too do the same. However the debian binaries > don't exploit well the architecture. They use -o32 abi, when the > machine is 64 bits allowing -n32 and -n64 abis. I imagine -n64 could > even allow applications requiring higher memory spaces for better > performance, such as libreoffice and iceweasel, to work better, :-) You're welcome in supporting another mipsel abi port. However, as it is now, the manpower to keep the existing mipsel port alive is already limited. Having said this, I think a n32 port would be really a good thing. > At any rate wht makes more curious is that iceweasel from official > debian repo doesn't work for me at all when browsing over gmail > account. It just freezes. So I keep using an old anheng version on > testing for iceweasel. Oh? Testing? Unstable? Doesn't it work anywhere or is just gmail affected? If it doesn't work at all we definitly need to get that fixed. > And I have no clue about official way to install debian on mini-pc. > The way I install it was to install old version of gnu-ssense first, > and then change the repos to official debian. This because when I > acquire these mini-pcs, loongson architecture was just getting into > unstable and there was no official support anywhere, as I suppose > there is now, :-) My last installed was using the d-i netinstall image and booting from net. This was however some time ago, my most recent installs were on the Fuloong 2E with d-i (and a custom kernel). Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
