I was refering to a formal (supported) release from RH. Something I can pay RH to get support for. On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 10:55, H . J . Lu wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 09:49:20AM -0500, Marc Karasek wrote: > > I have one question: I did not know that RH had a MIPS dist for 7.1. > > Is this something MIPS has done from the RH sources? Or is RH planning > > on supporting MIPS now? > > > > Red Hat doesn't have a mips port. It is me who ported RedHat 7.1 to > mips. > > > H.J. > --- > My mini-port of RedHat 7.1 is at > > ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/redhat/7.1/ > > you should be able to put a small RedHat 7.1 on the mips/mipsel box and > compile the rest of RedHat 7.1 yourselves. > > Here are something you should know: > > 1. The cross compiler hosted on RedHat 7.1/ia32 is provided as a > toolchain rpm. The binary rpms for the mips and mipsel cross compilers > are included. You may need glibc 2.2.3-11 or above to use those > rpms. The glibc x86 binary rpms under RPMS/i386 should be ok. > 2. You have to find a way to put those rpms on your machine. I use > network boot and NFS root to do it. > 3. install.tar.bz2 has some scripts to prepare NFS root and install > RedHat 7.1 on a hard drive. > 4. baseline.tar.bz2 contains the cross build tree. > 5. Since everything is cross compiled from x86, which is little endian, > many data files for mips, which is big endian, are either missing or > wrong. To get those data files for mips, you have to rebuild/install > the folowing rpms: > > cracklib > glibc > > natively on Linux/mips. > > Thanks. > > > H.J. -- /************************* Marc Karasek Sr. Firmware Engineer iVivity Inc. marc_karasek@ivivity.com (770) 986-8925 (770) 986-8926 Fax *************************/
