On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 09:36 -0600, Darcy Parker (Home) wrote: > Good day all,
Hi Darcy! > > I am considering replacing a bunch of old dual floppy machines with > the microtik routerboard 500 (http://www.routerboard.com/). These > boards have a CF card slot and can be configured to boot off of them. I > believe the units has a MIPS 79RC32434 processor. > > I am currently running Leaf Bering uClibC 2.0 but will migrate to > 2.2. I use these for IPSEC connections between several remote offices. > > Has anyone ported Leaf bering to the routerboard or can anyone give me > some starting pointers? My concerns are how to get from my two floppies > to the CF card, and if the existing code will work with the MIPS processor. > It will not work. MIPS is not compatible to i386/i486 architecture, so anything compiled for it won't run (Another difference would be, that i386 are little endian processors while (true) MIPS is big endian). I am thinking about porting bering-uclibc to linksys which uses a MIPSel (MIPS in little endian) processor, but even this won't be compatible. buildtool as it is now, is not ready for crosscompiling (although the kernel and uclibc/busybox should run on MIPS/MIPSEL), it will be some day, hopefully, but there are still some problems that will occure (apart from compilation problems that some sources will show, i suppose), one is : how to boot it ? Depending on the board, you might need a special boot loader, you might not have an ide disc (only flash ram), at least this is the case for the linksys... Would be an interesting project, of course. So don't expect an easy solution for this, you might consider one of the "standard" leaf i386 based boards like WRAP or soekris... > Darcy > --arne -- Arne Bernin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ucBering.de ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
