[Soc-coordination] Status Report of MIPS N32/N64 Port, Week 0

[Eleanor Chen]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Sukhbir Singh <sukhbir.in at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Eleanor,
>
> Thanks for sending your report.
>
>> In the first week, I did not do much but simply read some
>> documentations and had a few sample tests.
>>
>>  * Read Debian Policy
>>  * Read Debian New Maintainers' Guide
>>  * Worked on dpkg to make it recognize mips64el
>>  * Talked with my mentor a lot and had a few brain storm
>
> That's OK.
>
> If your discussions with your mentor are on a public mailing list, you
> can reference it here so that others can follow the discussion if they
> are interested.
>

The discussions were mostly happen through Internet voice calling,
which is easy to handle because my mentor and I live in the same
timezone. I posted a question[1] on debian-mips mailing list, but I
think I really need to try to improve my performance when
participating technical discussion through such a form.

[1]http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2013/06/msg00006.html

>> Since this is the first week that everything just went started, there
>> is not much to say, but I will get more work done next week.
>
> Can you please describe your plans for the next week? (A short summary
> should suffice.)
>

I'll be working on a non-multilib enabled version of cross toolchain,
which is basically these things:

1. dpkg support (patch done, to be submitted, already built for amd64)
2. binutilus (version sensitive so far, already built for amd64)
3. linux-libc-dev (built on amd64, it shows that linux-3.10-rc2 or
higher is needed to have getdents64 in headers)
4. gcc-stage1 (doing on amd64)
5. eglibc-stage1 (TBD)
6. gcc-stage2 (TBD)
7. eglibc-stage2 (TBD)
8. gcc-stage3, which is the first final cross compiler (TBD)


Thanks,
Eleanor



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