Andrew Haines wrote:
On 01/30/12 07:19, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Nikolai Zhubr wrote:
Hi,
29.01.2012 19:32, Jy V:
[...]
on the WNDR3800 the OpenWRT installed gives
root@OpenWrt:~# uname -a
Linux OpenWrt 2.6.32.27 #5 Wed Dec 21 01:59:33 CET 2011 mips GNU/Linux
I've got wndr3800 too, and moreover I don't use it for the moment. So
instead of collecting dust it could do something usefull. Installing
debian on it will probably not be as quick and easy as openwrt but
still if debian mips userspace is able to run on it, I could give it a
try and then ssh will be available for FPC developers if installation
succeeds. It is apparently big endian though. Would it make sense to try?
Bear in mind that there's Debian for both endiannesses of MIPS, I'm
running mipsel via Qemu to reasonable effect. Experience with small ARM
systems suggests that having enough memory is crucial, 128Mb with swap
to 512 should be OK but these days I'd not like to try smaller.
But I don't know to what extent trying to implement the compiler and
runtimes for mips and mipsel simultaneously would complicate things.
I spent a little time researching qemu with MIPS but couldn't find
anything current. Can you give me some pointers on setting that up?
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Qemu_and_other_emulators
Note that on that page I've rolled several Debian guest systems together
into one section, showing appropriate differences in configuration files
etc. Some of the scripts I've given are probably a bit idiosyncratic,
but they're what I've found has worked for me over the 5+ years I've
been using Qemu on various systems.
Most guest systems are built (not by me) to expect that they can display
their console in an xterm. I normally start up in a VNC session, then
log in over SSH.
Please yell if anything's unclear.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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