Re: Curious as to the status of the MIPS port...
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:39PM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
>
> Hey...
>
> I was just wondering about the status of the MIPS port. I noticed that
> the port page hasn't been updated in quite some time.
Thats only one side of the medal ...
> The reason I ask (and you may be wondering, considering I'm becoming known
> mostly for work on Alphas) is that I may be getting ahold of an SGI Indy
> for free to play with. If I can get ahold of it, I'd be happy to help out
> with the MIPS port as well, time allowing. Granted, my time (and
> loyalties) lie with Alpha at the moment, but if I can contribute to
> porting some of the package base to MIPS, I'd be happy to.
The mips port is progressing faster than ever - I have compiled
1800 Packages for mipsel and 2200 packages for mips
( ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/pub/local/debian-{mips,mipsel} )
Biggest problems were glibc, binutils, gcc in the past - There are finally
current working gcc, glibc, binutils variants but due to the nature
of software development they have loads of generic (not mips specific) bugs.
Flo
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