On 06/06/17 23:10, Stuart Longland wrote: > Well, after much compiling with a slow QEMU VM… here's the first batch. > > http://www.longlandclan.id.au/~stuartl/gentoo/mips/n64/ > > I have not yet tried these out, *at all*, this is just the raw output > from Catalyst. I've simply thrown them up here with GnuPG signatures, > and will be trying them out sometime this weekend on my Yeeloong, which > is presently running OpenBSD/loongson.
An update, the stages work. I have my Yeeloong running n64 now, and it is *more* responsive than the QEMU VM is. n32 is still theoretically going to be faster, but since not much software handles n32 well (and x32 on AMD64 has the same problems). I haven't hit any major issues, although I think sometimes I tickle the CPU the wrong way and that causes a system hang: possibly a kernel issue. Presently, I am re-building my desktop environment, I have X working (fbdev; siliconmotion driver segfaults) and so now it's a case of building up everything else. Also, I have packaged up a kernel and disk image using these stages that may be useful for people to try out Gentoo/MIPS n64. Might be handy for other devs to try out their packages on MIPS, just create a new disk image and mount it as `hdb`, partition and format it, unpack an official stage3, copy /lib/modules and /lib/firmware over, then shut it down and use the new image in place of `hda`, the VM should boot that new stage. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
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