From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g2K6Tfa20919 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:29:41 -0800 Received: from post.webmailer.de (natpost.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g2K6TX920916 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:29:34 -0800 Received: from excalibur.cologne.de (pD951145C.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.20.92]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA08176; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:30:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from karsten by excalibur.cologne.de with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16nZkt-0000C7-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:39:27 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:39:27 +0100 From: Karsten Merker To: David Christensen Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Fw: hello Message-ID: <20020320073927.A471@excalibur.cologne.de> Mail-Followup-To: Karsten Merker , David Christensen , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com References: <017701c1cf99$a7d9a890$0b01a8c0@w2k30g> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <017701c1cf99$a7d9a890$0b01a8c0@w2k30g>; from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:55:22PM -0800 X-No-Archive: yes Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:55:22PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > Which Linux distribution does MIPS use? Since I'm going to be working > on an Atlas board using software from MIPS, I would like to match things > up exactly. Several different - there is a Debian port (big and little endian), H.J. Lu's RedHat mini-port (big endian AFAIK), Karel van Houten's RedHat-based rootfs (little endian), Keith M. Wesolwski's Simple Linux (big-endian). I think the most complete of all is Debian. > As an aside, is anybody using a VMware virtual machine for their > development host? Why should we? VMware emulates i386 on i386, so it would be of no help for mips development. > >> 3. What is the preferred toolchain... I always build natively: gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) GNU ld version 2.11.93.0.2 20020207 Debian/GNU Linux > > Yep - The Debian autobuilder run native on little and big endian. > > Hmmm. Do you mean GNU autoconf running natively on MIPS, or something > running on a Debian x86 host, or something else? The autobuilder is a system that checks for new Debian packages which are not yet built for mips/mipsel and automatically builds and uploads them into the Debian archive. It runs natively (in our case on a Lasat Masquerade Pro for little endian and on an SGI Indigo2 for big endian). Regards, Karsten -- #include Nach Paragraph 28 Abs. 3 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz widerspreche ich der Nutzung oder Uebermittlung meiner Daten fuer Werbezwecke oder fuer die Markt- oder Meinungsforschung.