On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Anthony G. Basile
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to request an account on the Loongson 3A MIPS.  I just saw an
> announcement on [email protected] that the gcc-cfarm got a
> machine and is making it available.
>
> user account: blueness
>
> projects:
>
> 1) Release engineering for Gentoo XFCE4 desktop on the Lemote Yeeloong.  I
> wish to extend this to the loongson 3a.  See [1] and [2].
>
> 2) Toolchain hardening on various architectures, including mipsel and
> mips64el.  This involves work with gcc and both glibc or uclibc.  See [3]
> and [4].
>
> The above work is disseminiated on Gentoo mirrors under
> <mirror>/experimental/mips.
>
>
> 3) Miscellaneous compile/run testing of various software packages on which I
> am upstream:
>
> a) hwmultd - a daemon that monitors and multicasts hardware info [5]
> b) sthttpd - a fork of Jef Poskanzer's thttpd [6]
> c) elfix - a utility for setting PaX flags on ELF binaries [7]
> d) eudev - fork of systemd with only udev isolated [8]
>
>
> Ref
>
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/mips/yeeloong.xml
>
> [2]
> http://blogs.gentoo.org/blueness/2012/09/08/a-gentoo-desktop-for-the-lemote-yeeloong-a-little-endian-mips64-netbook/
>
> [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/
>
> [4] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/uclibc/
>
> [5] http://opensource.dyc.edu/gitweb/?p=hwmultd.git;a=summary
>
> [6] http://opensource.dyc.edu/gitweb/?p=sthttpd.git;a=summary
>
> [7] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/elfix.git;a=summary
>
> [8] https://github.com/gentoo/eudev
>
>
> --
> Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
> Chair of Information Technology
> D'Youville College
> Buffalo, NY 14201
> (716) 829-8197

Unfortunately, it's totally useless for two reasons:

It doesn't contain any development tools (for example: missing
libtool, IIRC) and its kernel is too old for a Gentoo chroot to work.

ryao reported at least the latter problem, but to no avail:
http://gna.org/support/?2921

As far as I can tell, the box has just been a waste of electricity :(

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