Mailing List Archive: MIPS32 little-endian softfloat Gentoo rootfs update Nov 2014

MIPS32 little-endian softfloat Gentoo rootfs update Nov 2014

Nov 18, 2014, 11:41 PM

Post #1 of 4 (1897 views)

Hello,

I've again uploaded another snapshot of a little-endian softfloat MIPS32 rootfs
I maintain for a few of my MIPS toys.

It's a complete gentoo installation, with toolchain and a few lightweight
desktop environments as well as some networking tools.

See the readme at [1] for more information. (In short: updated toolchain
to latest git heads, including llvm, and updated all packages to portage
snapshot from 2014-11-16).

Grab the tarball at [2], and if you're curious, file and individual
package listingsare at [3] and [4]. Binary packages are at [5], drop
them at the root of
the filesystem.

[1] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/README.txt
[2] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-rootfs-141117.tar.xz
[3] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-rootfs-141117.CONTENTS
[4] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-packages-141117.CONTENTS
[5] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-packages-141117.tar

Happy hacking,
Manuel Lauss

Re: MIPS32 little-endian softfloat Gentoo rootfs update Nov 2014 [ In reply to ]

dlan at gentoo

Nov 19, 2014, 5:04 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1862 views)

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Hi
On 08:40 Wed 19 Nov , wireless wrote:
> On 11/19/14 02:41, Manuel Lauss wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've again uploaded another snapshot of a little-endian softfloat MIPS32 rootfs
> > I maintain for a few of my MIPS toys.
> >
> > It's a complete gentoo installation, with toolchain and a few lightweight
> > desktop environments as well as some networking tools.
> >
> > See the readme at [1] for more information. (In short: updated toolchain
> > to latest git heads, including llvm, and updated all packages to portage
> > snapshot from 2014-11-16).
> >
> > Grab the tarball at [2], and if you're curious, file and individual
> > package listingsare at [3] and [4]. Binary packages are at [5], drop
> > them at the root of
> > the filesystem.
> >
> >
> > [1] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/README.txt
> > [2] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-rootfs-141117.tar.xz
> > [3] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-rootfs-141117.CONTENTS
> > [4] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-packages-141117.CONTENTS
> > [5] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-packages-141117.tar
> >
> > Happy hacking,
> > Manuel Lauss
>
> This sounds interesting. Has anyone run the gentoo mips32 on a Microchip
> mips 32?
>
> [1] http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/family/32bit/
>
>
> If so, I'd like to hear your experiences.
>
> If not, what would the minimum amount of ram be required (suggested) run
> run the gentoo embedded mips code on a 32 bit Microchip mips processors?
>
> curiously,
> James
>
I doubt it would require much effort, if there is sane bootloader, kernel,
then it should simple as it is..
have you heard of the story of how to put elephant into fridge?
it is three steps: a) open the door of fridge b) put elephant in c)
close the door
same as how to run Gentoo in mips hardware

--
Yixun Lan (dlan)
Gentoo Linux Developer
GPG Key ID AABEFD55

Re: MIPS32 little-endian softfloat Gentoo rootfs update Nov 2014 [ In reply to ]

manuel.lauss at gmail

Nov 19, 2014, 5:11 AM

Post #3 of 4 (1866 views)

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On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi
> On 08:40 Wed 19 Nov , wireless wrote:
>> On 11/19/14 02:41, Manuel Lauss wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I've again uploaded another snapshot of a little-endian softfloat MIPS32 rootfs
>> > I maintain for a few of my MIPS toys.
>> >
>> > It's a complete gentoo installation, with toolchain and a few lightweight
>> > desktop environments as well as some networking tools.
>>
>> This sounds interesting. Has anyone run the gentoo mips32 on a Microchip
>> mips 32?
>>
>> [1] http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/family/32bit/
>>
>>
>> If so, I'd like to hear your experiences.
>>
>> If not, what would the minimum amount of ram be required (suggested) run
>> run the gentoo embedded mips code on a 32 bit Microchip mips processors?
>
> I doubt it would require much effort, if there is sane bootloader, kernel,
> then it should simple as it is..
> have you heard of the story of how to put elephant into fridge?
> it is three steps: a) open the door of fridge b) put elephant in c)
> close the door
> same as how to run Gentoo in mips hardware

I think the PIC32 are just microcontroller which speak MIPS, they have no MMU
and as far as I can see there's no mips linux port for this kind of
configuration.
I doubt you could even uclibc-based distros on them since there's no linux-y OS
for this hardware (yet).

Manuel

Re: MIPS32 little-endian softfloat Gentoo rootfs update Nov 2014 [ In reply to ]

wireless at tampabay

Nov 19, 2014, 5:40 AM

Post #4 of 4 (1860 views)

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On 11/19/14 02:41, Manuel Lauss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've again uploaded another snapshot of a little-endian softfloat MIPS32 rootfs
> I maintain for a few of my MIPS toys.
>
> It's a complete gentoo installation, with toolchain and a few lightweight
> desktop environments as well as some networking tools.
>
> See the readme at [1] for more information. (In short: updated toolchain
> to latest git heads, including llvm, and updated all packages to portage
> snapshot from 2014-11-16).
>
> Grab the tarball at [2], and if you're curious, file and individual
> package listingsare at [3] and [4]. Binary packages are at [5], drop
> them at the root of
> the filesystem.
>
>
> [1] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/README.txt
> [2] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-rootfs-141117.tar.xz
> [3] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-rootfs-141117.CONTENTS
> [4] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-packages-141117.CONTENTS
> [5] http://mlau.at/files/mips32-linux/mips32elsf-gentoo-packages-141117.tar
>
> Happy hacking,
> Manuel Lauss

This sounds interesting. Has anyone run the gentoo mips32 on a Microchip
mips 32?

[1] http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/family/32bit/

If so, I'd like to hear your experiences.

If not, what would the minimum amount of ram be required (suggested) run
run the gentoo embedded mips code on a 32 bit Microchip mips processors?

curiously,
James