Hi,
below a shortened and only partially accurate (since not everything
was noted) installation log and comments for my indy with gentoo mips.
The time period covered is from somewhere start of march or so till
now, some of the issues has gone away since then but not all, it might
be of some help to other ppl trying to install gentoo-mips on the indy
I'll try to figure out how to file bug reports etc for the stuff i
encountered that i could fix.
Aim was to install gentoo-mips is possible with hardened patches etc.
The hardened part is currently on a small part since i didn't investigate
it and the initial point was to install it.
Tried to do it following the gentoo mips install guide. (url?)
- image: ip22-r4k-20050128.img
broke keyboard support on my indy reverted to:
ip22-r4k-20040627.img
which worked very well.
- stage tarballs are not available, need to look into experimental directory
and then they are quite old 2004.3 doesn't contain a stage 1 or 2 tarbal
reverted to old ones.
experimental/mips/stages/mips4/stage1-mips4-20040713.tar.bz2
- mips4 crashes on me, wrong arch probably i have an indy ip22 so lets try
mips3 experimental/mips/stages/mips3/stage1-mips3-20040713.tar.bz2
- got latest portage(portage-20050301.tar.bz2)
- emerge --sync worked after some retries. (probably network problems
nothing serious)
- got error: str object has no attribute insert
google-> profile problem resetted profile to
usr/portage/profiles/mips-linux-2004.1
got errors on bootstrap but non fatal only "profile not support or some such"
still compiling.
- popt doesn't want to compile doesn't recognize os, is because it
tries to determine big vs little endian using /proc/cpuinfo
but /proc/cpuinfo doesn't contain that info anymore starting from
.2.4.20 upwards. little compile hack, will send a bug report
- setting up distcc on fast machine along with cross compilition.
using the instruction from:
This is all resolved with the new cross-dev package so the stuff
about cross compiling is removed if someone is still interested
please email me.
- vlock works as well mips can be added to keywords i think. (just
on tested on indy)
Trying to install the kernel 2.6.10-r1 masked with -* and ~mips
lets see :)
make MAKE='make -j10' CC='distcc mips-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc'
CROSS_COMPILE=mips-unknown-linux-gnu-'
- arcboot masked by ~mips.
(just cross compilation problems are solved now)
- dvhtool might want to mention that you need to add -d /dev/sdb
if you didn't install on the primary disk.
- X:
needed in Section Module:
load xaa
- lots of packages at least compile and run, can be masked ~mips i
think including cryptsetup and devicemapper
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