Re: [linuxdc-dev] Swapping over network

[Oliver M . B. <ol...@go...>]

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:59:08AM +0200, Karl Trygve Kalleberg <ka...@pr...> wrote...
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:04:33AM +0200, Oliver M . Bolzer wrote:
> > Hi!
> 
> Great to see a debianer on the job. Can we arrange to set up some kind of
> public repository with packages, both compiled and in source form, so that
> more people than just you can help out ? 

Actually I'm not the first one. Takeshi YAEGASHI and Mutsumi ISHIKAWA
had been going long before I entered the game.

And except the kernel, there is not much special about the Dreamcast. It
just runs the normal stuff for SH. The only thing might be, that we are
currently compiling for SH3 as SH3 code would run on the SH4 but not
vice versa, until FPU emulation has been implemented.

Currently available package repositories are:

http://hanzubon.org/Linux/Debian/SH/
Current status and packages which need patches to build. This includes
xlibs (which many packages Build-Depends:) and the X-Server is expected
soon. Also a list of packages that are not up-to-date with the official
Debian archive (quinn-diff)

ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/super-h/debian-unstable/superh/
starting point for Debian/SH stuff. Basic packages, bast.tgz and 
tarballs for pretty recent GCC CVS snapshots.

http://ftp.<yourcountry>.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-sh/
Don't look in the subdirs (they ought to be removed) but in the Packages
files for packages that can pulled off the official Debian archives. This
includes packages which didn't need to be modifies to compile. This has
stopped somewhat as work is begin done on propper gcc packages, as with
the new shared libgcc, all packages need to depend on libgcc_s.so, which
is not available as a package, yet, and all packages would break horribly.
This place would make more sense once, we get APT working.


There are mostly 3 things that are hindering the porting to go into full
speed:

- No gcc packages. The compiler has to be installed by hand, either
  self-compiled or buinary tar.gz from m17n.org . There are gcc-3.0pre packages
  in Debian but SH needs gcc-3.1 (HEAD) from CVS and there are reservation for
  putting an unstable compiler into the distribution. If we could get a
  arch-specific clean diff against gcc-3.0, could be included ASAP.
  Takeshi YAEGASHI working on it, because we NEED a libgcc.deb to restart
  uploading stuff to the official archives

- X: lots and lots of stuff depends on xlibs. Not only X software but also
     things like TeX and groff Build-Depend on xlibs and even most of the
     basic packages depend on either TeX or groff for documentation.
     First X packages have been created by Mutsumi ISHIKAWA just yesterday.

- APT: what makes Debian so beautiful. Currently work is going on to port
       it to gcc-3.x . SH is not the only architecture needing this, and
       there is already a (not-yet-complete) patch floating around. Once
       apt works, Debian has all the software (quinn-diff, wanna-build
       buildd and sbuild) that can easily be set up for distributed
       auto-building and package reservation for individual porters.

That's about the status I can currently think of. If anybody wants to
help, there is a debian-superh mailing list, which you can join.
See http://lists.debian.org/


# So off I go to burn my self a boot CD with a NBD enabled kernel
-- 
	Oliver M. Bolzer
	ol...@go...

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