On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:55:22PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > Which Linux distribution does MIPS use? Since I'm going to be working > on an Atlas board using software from MIPS, I would like to match things > up exactly. Several different - there is a Debian port (big and little endian), H.J. Lu's RedHat mini-port (big endian AFAIK), Karel van Houten's RedHat-based rootfs (little endian), Keith M. Wesolwski's Simple Linux (big-endian). I think the most complete of all is Debian. > As an aside, is anybody using a VMware virtual machine for their > development host? Why should we? VMware emulates i386 on i386, so it would be of no help for mips development. > >> 3. What is the preferred toolchain... I always build natively: gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) GNU ld version 2.11.93.0.2 20020207 Debian/GNU Linux > > Yep - The Debian autobuilder run native on little and big endian. > > Hmmm. Do you mean GNU autoconf running natively on MIPS, or something > running on a Debian x86 host, or something else? The autobuilder is a system that checks for new Debian packages which are not yet built for mips/mipsel and automatically builds and uploads them into the Debian archive. It runs natively (in our case on a Lasat Masquerade Pro for little endian and on an SGI Indigo2 for big endian). Regards, Karsten -- #include <standard_disclaimer> Nach Paragraph 28 Abs. 3 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz widerspreche ich der Nutzung oder Uebermittlung meiner Daten fuer Werbezwecke oder fuer die Markt- oder Meinungsforschung.
