Re: [linuxdc-dev] New to this list, many questions

[M. R. B. <mr...@0x...>]

* ps...@wi... <ps...@wi...> on Sat, S=
ep 07, 2002:

> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 03:02:57 -0500
> "M. R. Brown" <mr...@0x...> wrote:
> > We've never gotten around to it.  It is *planned*, one of our developer=
s is
> > working on getting Gentoo[.org] bootstrapped, and of course you already
> > have a sizeable unstable debian distro to play with.
>=20
> i'm almost done with my clumpos port to openmosix, named plumpos. soon as=
 that's done i'll get started on the gentoo port. more than likely i won't =
make an iso immediately, but more of a gentoo-ish way of allowing one to pi=
ck the apps he/she wants in his/her iso and to emerge them with the dreamca=
st toolchain. several devs have been working on the uClibc and gcc 3.2 tool=
chain, which i think is great, but they seem to be stuck on a few bugs. gen=
too 1.4 (which will be released VERY soon) uses gcc 3.2, and i can't port 1=
.4 using an older gcc. why? for one, the binary incompatibility in gcc 3.2 =
means someone's x86 gentoo 1.4 distribution will be incompatible with someo=
ne's sh4 gentoo 1.4 distribution. yes yes, the binaries already don't just =
copy over, but there are other things which come into play and it just does=
n't seem right, so most likely the first dc port will be gentoo 1.3-based.
>=20

GCC 3.2/uClibc hasn't been worked on because I don't have the time, the
"bugs" should be relatively straightforward to fix (unless it's a code
generation bug in GCC).

> i just installed debian for the first time (sucessfully) on a new-ish ope=
nmosix node, so that means i can prolly update the old dreamcast distributi=
on with ease (once i read the dodes docs and figure out the bootstrapper). =
if anyone really wants a new iso, i could do one for the time being...
>=20

The "bootstrapper" is the package at ftp.m17n.org.  It works when burned to
a CD, and over NFS root with a few tweaks to the startup files.

M. R.