Query on gnu toolset
Aaron J. Grier
aaron@frye.com
Tue Oct 9 01:34:00 GMT 2001
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:54:19AM -0800, Immani Venkat wrote:
> You would be duplicating NetBSD's effort trying to port FreeBSD to
> MIPS.
not really... FreeBSD and NetBSD may be distant cousins, but they are
separate software projects with separate design goals.
> There ``a NetBSD port for MIPS''.
> Checkout:
> http://www.NetBSD.org/
> http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/mipsco/
I run NetBSD on my MIPS-based DECStations.
> Afaik, NetBSD for MIPS ships with the appropriate gnu toolset.
there currently is a push by NetBSD developers to bring up-to-date GNU
tools into NetBSD. look for posts from Rafal Boni on the binutils list.
--
Aaron J. Grier | Frye Electronics, Tigard, OR | aaron@frye.com
"In a few thousand years people will be scratching their heads
wondering how on earth the first computer was invented and
bootstrapped without a prior computer to do it with."
-- Chris Malcolm, on comp.arch
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