Re: Hands for the mipsel port / bootstrapping
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > Yes, it was an interesting experience to see 'FATAL: kernel too old' when
> > trying to run bash. :) My next step is to boot the machine to 2.2
> > (2.4?) so I can continue with configuring the chroot'ed system.
> I guess you'll see that message too booting 2.2 although i never saw
> a 2.2 kernel for the Cobalts.
Hmm, I haven't seen a 2.2 kernel for it yet, either. So far, the 2.4 kernels
I've built complain about 'spurious interrupts' and never make it past
mounting filesystems. Slow progress, but progress.
> > Are your mips/mipsel machines faster at compiling than ours is? I admit that
> > I'm very impatient when waiting for compiles, having been spoiled by fast
> > x86 and alpha systems. I'm sure that if it's as much hassle as you say, I'll
> > soon give up and learn to tolerate the slow builds, but I'm still going to try
> > cross-building if only for my own purposes.
> I dont think mine are much faster - The mipsel machines we currently
> build on are 250Mhz R5000 with 128M and the Big Endian autobuilder
> is currently 100MHz R4400 with 64M although the Indigo2 has
> 128M and a 250Mhz R4400 but the disk corruption is worse on the Indigo2
> due to multiple disks.
Well, I don't know our system specs, and don't remember a way to find the
processor speed with a 2.0 kernel. I can say, however, that OpenSSL
cross-builds pleasantly fast on my Pentium II 333. Cross-building
multi-library source packages this way still fails due to some issues with
dpkg-cross, but I'll see if I can't hammer those out.
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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