[Gnewsense-dev] Re: [loongson-buildfarm] a possible list of things to do

[Karl Goetz]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:53:19 +0100
address@hidden (avr) wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:22:53PM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:38:27 +0000
> > Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > Just an idea:
> > > 
> > > One:
> > > On the first machine add the sources.
> > 
> > I've been looking around, and I think the Loongson is a MIPS chip,
> > *NOT* a MIPSEL. If your making a Debian mirror (as I'm about to), be
> > careful to select the correct name.
> > The Loongson Wiki page lead me to that conclusion:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Features
> 
> for the loongson 2f under features it reads:
> "# Little endian MIPS III-compatible ISA" 
> The "Little endian" puts the "el" in mipsel. mips and mipsel should
> only differ in endianess. iirc there are even mips chips that can run
> in both modes depending on initialization.

I'm adding both to my mirror.

> 
> > > Do a build of the native kernel to get a benchmark of how long it
> > > would take if we have to do a series of changes and a rebuild.
> > 
> > If an emulator will emulate this chip well(enough), it would
> > probably be worth getting a native+emulated build times.
> 
> Lemote already created a version of gxemul capable of emulating the
> loongson 2e. Hopefully they will extend it to cover the 2f chip after
> which it could be used for running an emulated install, making it
> easier to create compile farms and such.

I'll have to have  look around the Lemote site at some point and grab a
copy of their gxemul.
kk

> 
>       friendly,
>       Andreas
> 
> 


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