Re: MIPS64EL rootfs available for use and test

On 14 November 2013 00:46, David Daney <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11/13/2013 04:32 PM, YunQiang Su wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:03 AM, David Daney <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/11/2013 09:57 AM, YunQiang Su wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi, folks,
>>>>
>>>> In the recent days, I figure out the mips64el rootfs and test it on
>>>> Loongson 3A platform.
>>>> It works well in general, it's time to release it.
>>>>
>>>> It can be download from:
>>>>       http://mips64el.debian.net/debian/rootfs/
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Nice!
>>>
>>> I tested it on our OCTEON boards.  Seems to be working.  I had to enable
>>> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS and CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT in my kernel and edit
>>> /etc/inittab
>>> to put gettys on my serial ports, and set the root password.  But after
>>> that, it works seemingly without a hitch.
>>>
>> Great news, while wait... does OCTEON support little endian?
>>
>
> Yes.  The kernel.org kernel doesn't yet contain full little-endian
> support, but getting little-endian support merged is on our list of things
> to do.
>
> Hi David,
 out of interest, do you know if there are any commercially (ideally easily
and cheaply ;-) available boards out there that can run Octeon little
endian? afaik things like the CN5020 based boards like the Erlite-3 and
CAM-0100 only do big, and afaik there is no (documented) way to jumper them
differently.
 My presumption is that the Cavium Octeon devboards from Cavium themselves
(available I believe, but not too cheap) can do both?

 Graham


> David Daney
>
>
>
>
>>>
>>>
>>>  To install it, what you need to do is just unpack it to a partition
>>>> and configure kernel/bootloader/fstab by yourself.
>>>>
>>>> This is a more detailed instruction for Loongson 3A users:
>>>>       http://mips64el.debian.net/debian/rootfs/README
>>>>
>>>> Know issues:
>>>>       1. MIPS64r2 ISA is required,
>>>>            while we have made a agree to downgrade the requirement to
>>>> mips3 in future.
>>>>       2. The permission is of /usr/bin/crontab is not correct, so you
>>>> need
>>>> to:
>>>>                apt-get install cron --reinstall
>>>>       3. some files in /var/cache/man are not correct, you need to:
>>>>                 rm -rf /var/cache/man/* ; mandb
>>>>
>>>> PS: we have 8500+ packages built now.
>>>>
>>>> Happy hacking, and I am wishing your feedback.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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