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[Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com>]

On 1/21/12, Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:
> Am Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:58:41 -0600
> schrieb Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com>:
>
>> I'm wondering whether anyone in sourceMage has tried to make a port
>> for these loongson based, and if there's instalable images or similar.
>>  If not then where I could start gathering information and how to
>> start trying to make a port?
>
> Well, a long time ago I did something vaguely similar by getting
> SourceMage on Alpha boxes. But I took the easy route without a cross
> compiler; starting with an existing Linux system installed on the box
> and then possessing it with SMGL:
>
>       http://wiki.sourcemage.org/PossessGuide

Can you "possess" a system with different arch?  Debian mipsel for
example is compiled with ABI -o32, which means pure 32 bits system.
I'm looking for pure 64 bits with ABI -n64...

>
> A true initial port of the distro via cross compilation is more
> involved, I don't know how well sorcery does cope with that, I remember
> folks here playing with cross compilers, though.
> The hard way would be going  the http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ route
> for a minimal system and then "possessing" that. But I guess starting
> with a MIPS debian shoul be possible and the easiest route.

OK, good to know, except by the differences in architecture.
Hopefully you or someone else can clarify, :-)

BTW, there's LFS for mips64-64:

http://cross-lfs.org/view/svn/mips64-64

And loongson community already provides flags (though they comment for
the kernel, I'd guess they apply to every package):

http://dev.lemote.com/trac/linux-loongson-community

> Alrighty then,
>
> Thomas.

But hopefully the easy way can work even if host has not the
architecture looked for, :-)

Thanks,

-- 
Javier.