Hello,
it has been a while since I posted an update to this list. One of the reasons is that I have moved to China. This is a big change, but also a big chance. I still need to find my bearings and employment, but now I also had to time to meet up with Wolfgang from Qi Hardware and Loongson.
Updates --- Qi Hardware is a project to do copyleft hardware, meaning that all the schematics and software are open sourced. One of their platforms is the Nanonote, which is a small PDA-form factor device running on a Ingenic X-burst processor. This is a MIPS-compatible processor and has proven to be able to run Linux. The current model provides too little memory to host a full Fedora distribution, but later models will use an improved Ingenic processor. We are investigating if it is possible to port our distribution to this next processor/platform.
I also had the opportunity to meet up with the people at Loongson as they are based in Beijing. We had a very open minded talk about our Fedora vision and what the vision of Loongson is. They have offered us some machines to aid us in our port and hope we can collaborate on other levels in the future by providing a stable distribution and build the Fedora brand in China.
This leaves us with talking about the actual distribution. We had several test builds (F11 and F12) since we started around March and are now focusing on getting out F13 first. We hope this won't be a lengthy process. Currently this is still done on a single machine, but we will have a rootfs with the F13 build toolchain for the other machines to speed up the rest of the process. As you can see, we are working on our build infrastructure and streamlining our build process. When the test release is done, we will be submitting our patches.
Questions --- We still have an issue to which we would like your advice. We are currently building our distribution as N32 for MIPS Little Endian (mipsel), but this is not reflected in our package naming. Maybe over time we could consider creating packages for the other ABIs, like O32 and N64, or even creating a Big Endian release. We would need to be able to indicate this in our generated packages. Just let us hear what your take on this is. Feel free to forward this message to people you think can help us in making a good decision.
We would also like to know how people are using the current release and if they had any good (or maybe even bad) experience with it. Looking forward to this.
Kind regards,
Gerard and the MIPS team
在 2010-07-06二的 15:06 +0800,Gerard Braad写道:
Hello,
Questions
We still have an issue to which we would like your advice. We are currently building our distribution as N32 for MIPS Little Endian (mipsel), but this is not reflected in our package naming. Maybe over time we could consider creating packages for the other ABIs, like O32 and N64, or even creating a Big Endian release. We would need to be able to indicate this in our generated packages. Just let us hear what your take on this is. Feel free to forward this message to people you think can help us in making a good decision.
We would also like to know how people are using the current release and if they had any good (or maybe even bad) experience with it. Looking forward to this.
Just let you know, that the F13 rootfs boots on Yeeloong laptop yesterday evening.
And, is this an issue that the packages have name mips64el while the binaries are actually N32?
Kind regards,
Gerard and the MIPS team
It is hard to decide... As N32 is not purely 32bit, and N64 shares the same arch (mips64el) with N32. But mipsel is obviously for O32.
Cheers, Fai
2010/7/13 Xin Zhen xlonestar2000@aim.com:
在 2010-07-06二的 15:06 +0800,Gerard Braad写道:
Hello,
Questions
We still have an issue to which we would like your advice. We are currently building our distribution as N32 for MIPS Little Endian (mipsel), but this is not reflected in our package naming. Maybe over time we could consider creating packages for the other ABIs, like O32 and N64, or even creating a Big Endian release. We would need to be able to indicate this in our generated packages. Just let us hear what your take on this is. Feel free to forward this message to people you think can help us in making a good decision.
We would also like to know how people are using the current release and if they had any good (or maybe even bad) experience with it. Looking forward to this.
Just let you know, that the F13 rootfs boots on Yeeloong laptop yesterday evening.
And, is this an issue that the packages have name mips64el while the binaries are actually N32?
Kind regards,
Gerard and the MIPS team
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