Previously Florian Lohoff wrote: > I would like to start uploading packages which is not that easy for 2 reasons: > > - I am not a Maintainer ( Tried to get maintainer when queue was closed ) > - There is no sid/binary-mipsel I'll see if I can help with those two. > With "mips" its a bit more complicated Guido Guenther has set up an > autobuilder on Monday and tries to build packages. I would like to > step in any use my experiences on mipsel to do something - I have an > "SGI Indigo2 Solid Impact" (R4400@250Mhz) which currently does nothing > because i have no working kernel (Mostly console problems). I am doing > currently more Kernel hacking than porting as i first need a kernel :) I'ld like to avoid doing kernel hacking, I don't have the time for that :( I have a kernel running fine though. > Thats the state - Most of the current problems as very essential things > like > > - Kernel (Broken Architectures like SGI_IP22, Broken headers etc) The indy is an IP22 machine it seems, and I have a 2.1.100 kernel that runs fine on it. I can put that online somewhere if you want. > - Development Toolchain (egcs 1.0.3a + binutils 2.8.1 are OLD) True, hopefully that's just a matter of compiling though (`just compiling' and egcs in one sentence.. :) > - No glibc 2.1 (Symbol versioning problems - No support in binutils > and different other problems with Incompatibility of MIPS ABI > and glibc behaviour - Probably glib2.2 will be mips ready) Aie, that sucks. Do you know how that is coming along? I know that we had to wait for long months for that to be done for ultrasparc.. > - No XFree - I tried building XFree 4 which works with little config > script patches - But doesnt build an X Server - I am now going > to compile against those libs and headers and wait for > branden to release packages ill take a look at. XFree 3 might still be a better thing to start with, XFree4 doesn't have the same number of drivers of architecture support. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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