On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:24:58PM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > What exactly would we have to do in order to install O2 in Debian and > debian-installer. Quite a few people have asked for O2 support > recently, so it might be a good idea to do it. We'd need a new > kernel, will arcboot work or does it need patches? What else? Arcboot should be able to boot 64 bit kernels already. Ilya sent a patch for this recently. tip22 lacks proper IP32 support at the moment so we can't create the current kernel + initrd tftpboot package. I could add this to my TODO list though, shouldn't be hard. Major show stopper here is that we don't have a mips64 gcc in debian yet, so we can't build kernels for the O2 (self contained in debian). I discussed with Thiemo that we could build a mips64 "kgcc" for kernel builds only (therefore not needing a n32 or n64 glibc) for sarge and fix up things properly afterwards [1]. Is there any other arch that has a special gcc for kernel builds, so we could use that package as a basis? Cheers, -- Guido [1] everything else would require major changes to the glibc and gcc ackages
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