<div> There're not really any progress in my the last two weeks since my only laptop was down and I had some TA stuff to finish. I spent the other time installing and studing the multi-lib tool chain on my Fuloong 2f box.</div>
<div> I started working on the project early at the community bonding period, by building a LFS[0] and a CLFS[1] system. This process teach me how to build a native or a cross-complile tool-chain and how to use this tool-chain to build your own linux system. Then by finishing the book <em>LPI linux Certification in a Nutshell </em>,I got familiar with Unix-like environment admistrative skills and some basic network administration. And by reading the book <em>See MIPS Run Linux</em> I got some basic idea of MIPS ISA and O32, N32 ABI.</div>
<div> I also tried to run the mipsel port of Debian under qemu[2] before I got the fuloong box. Since the performance is not very good, I didn't build any package on it.</div>
<div> After I received the fuloong box, I installed lenny on it by simply extracting the whole system from a tar ball to a empty partition[3]. Very sadly, a Gdium Liberty 1000 netbook, also a Loongson2f based machine which is kindly donated by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 16px Simsun; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(85,85,85); LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px"><a style="COLOR: rgb(89,147,18); TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.gdium.com/" target="_blank">Dexxon/Emtec</a> and BLUG</span></span>[4], is lost by the local courier :-(</div>
<div> I plan to first build the binutils and then kernel, gcc and glibc on my fuloong box in the next week. I've already discussed with Fai Wong about the this and all these packages with necessary patches is ready on my laptop which I could get back this afternoon.</div>
<div> There is another link may be helpful If some of you are insterested in installing debian on a loongson2f based system[5].</div>
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<div>[0]<a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/">http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/</a> </div>
<div>[1]<a href="http://trac.cross-lfs.org/">http://trac.cross-lfs.org/</a><br clear="all">[2]<a href="http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/mipsel/">http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/mipsel/</a></div>
<div>[3]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 16px Simsun; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><a style="COLOR: rgb(42,93,176)" href="http://bjlx.org.cn/loongson/loongson2_debian5_20090315.tar.bz2" target="_blank">http://bjlx.org.cn/loongson/loongson2_debian5_20090315.tar.bz2</a></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 16px Simsun; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse">[4]<a href="http://www.beijinglug.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=388&Itemid=1">http://www.beijinglug.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=388&Itemid=1</a></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 16px Simsun; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse">[5]<a href="http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/Lemote">http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/Lemote</a></span></span></div>
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<div>Best,<br>Sha Liu<br></div>