[Soc-coordination] Status Report of MIPS N32/N64 Port, Week 1

[Eleanor Chen]

[Resending to include soc-coodination list.]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:19 AM, David Bremner <bremner at debian.org> wrote:
> Eleanor Chen <chenyueg at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> This week, I've completed stage1 of cross toolchain, which includes
>> dpkg, binutils,gcc stage1, linux-libc-dev, and eglibc stage1. All of
>> them are done on amd64 machine without some patching. Many thanks to
>> the help from my mentor on writing and improving thoes patches. I'm
>> attaching patches applied and explainations are as follows.
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> It seems like for binutils the snapshot you are working on has fallen
> behind jessie (not to mention sid). Is this likely to be a problem for
> you?
>

I guess yes, I tried a newer version when doing it but the resulting
package does not work properly, and I thought it would be good enough
to work out a functional package first, and catch up with jessie/sid
later.


> The other thing I noticed was that your patches seem to have a lot of
> "noise" (i.e. lines of patch not relevant to your changes).  I guess
> this is at least in part because you are regenerating some patches. I
> don't know if this is possible to fix, but it might make maintainers
> more eager to apply your patches.
>

The patches I've made do have extra stuff other than stage1 support,
they are some more bits for later steps, but not fully tested yet. I
would like to submit a polished patch after finishing bootstrap which
covers most things.


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