Tekmote ( http://www.tekmote.nl/ ) will ship to the US. They told me
€38 for shipping to Washington, DC, FWIW. I haven't purchased from
them, tho - I'm waiting on the Fuloong mini. C,B Chris Thomas wrote: On a related note, does anyone know where I can buy a Lemote YeeLoong in the United States? -Chris On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Rtp Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org> wrote:Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net> writes: Hi, [...]Thanks for your answer. You mean that changing sources.list and then "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" is likely to work (ie not breaking completely the machine)?Loongson 2f is mips3 compatible so any mipsel distribution will work on this processor [warning: the loongson is little endian only]. The only parts missing may be all the stuff related to the hardware like kernel and Xorg driver. Take care also about packages version. For instance, newer Xorg need some patch in the kernel to work (see [1]). imho you'll get into troubles only if you start mixing distributions (for instance plain debian with the version from lemote). If you really fear about breaking stuff, what about using a debian chroot and then do the switch when you're confident enough ?For your information, the GNewSenseToMIPS projetct is gathering information on the platfors using the godson CPU from Lemote Tech. You may find useful information here: http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS Feel free to correc/complete the information provided!Yes I had this one in my bookmarks but it doesn't mention (yet) the slowness of the www.lemote.com repository from Europe. When I have enough information I'll update the wiki :). In particular has anyone tried the debian-mipsel netinst on this particular harware? http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r6/mipsel/iso-cd/debian-40r6-mipsel-netinst.isoif you take lemote's kernel, netboot initrd, put them on a tftp, you can try to boot them with pmon. If it doesn't work, put kernel/initrd in /boot and boot them from pmon. Booting directly from a cd in a usb cdrom drive may work but it depends on your pmon version. iirc, there has been in the past bugs preventing this to work. I hope they're fixed now :) Of course, this assume that all needed support for usb/harddrive/network/... is built-in in lemote's kernel and that you're using it. Default debian kernel won't work afaik Arnaud [1] http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2008-12/msg00056.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mips-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org |