On 22:04 Thu 11 Nov , Matt Turner wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Stuart Longland <redhat...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> STMicroelectronics MIPS systems (Lemote, Gdium, etc) are becoming more > >> common, and we should definitely do a better job supporting them. (I > >> should mention that I've been loaned a Yeelong by Daniel Clark, of > >> freedomincluded.com, to fix up the siliconmotion driver.) > > > > Interesting... I've found Zhang Le's overlay includes a quite workable > > siliconmotion driver which runs fine on my Yeeloong. > > > > The only catch is that one must compile it with -march=loongson2f in > > CFLAGS... -mips3 (my preference) won't do. > > The main purpose of my project here is to write a kernel modesetting > driver. Apparently lots of FSF fanatics use Yeelongs entirely from the > terminal, so the potential for faster console scrolling speed is > somewhat appealing to them. ;)
KMS! cool! I don't have much experience on that. But if there is anything I can do, I'd love to help. > > > Out of interest... did you get around to those n32 stages at all? I'd > > like to get some of my old SGI kit up and going, some of them will need > > a complete reinstall... so I may as well do that using n32 from the > > outset. > > > > My O2 can remain o32 for now since it was the one still standing after > > all this time. The others, the userland is broken/stale to the point of > > uselessness. > > I tried again last week to make n32 stages, but have had a terrible > time with catalyst. > > The main problem I run into is that I can't get catalyst to > acknowledge any package.keywords files (which as I understand might be > by design), so I'm unable to put together a stage from the versions > I'd like to stabilize. Are your recent o32 stages straight-up ~mips? > Can you post your spec files somewhere? My way was to keyword those ebuilds and put them in my overlay. Not decent, but works. -_- -- Zhang, Le Gentoo/Loongson Developer http://zhangle.is-a-geek.org 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973
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