Re: MIPS64EL rootfs available for use and test

On 14 November 2013 18:25, YunQiang Su <[email protected]> wrote:

> Anybody can help to test whether the out current webkit workable?
>
> Maybe by install epiphany-browser and use it?
>
> All of my board/laptops are working as build nodes.
>
>
We'll see if we can run it up on our 3A laptop today. We've not modified
the laptop from production installation yet, so it may take us a little bit
to get up to speed with the process.


> If it work, can you reply to
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124370
> and
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729572
> ?
>
> OK, will do.
I'll let you know how we get on. If somebody else is/was thinking of trying
it out then please still do :-)

 Graham


> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Graham Whaley <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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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> YunQiang Su
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