Gentoo MIPS (Loongson 2F) project

[LoTeK]

hi,

I just looked at the help wanted website and unfortunately it seems that there isn't an active MIPS related project, or am I wrong?

hopefully I will receive my yeeloong 8089_D next week and if I'm correct there will be a debian, loonux or red flag distribution pre-installed. Of course I will install gentoo on it!

Because I have to write assembly programs for the MIPS architecture in my studies and even more because its a fully open system I want to spend much time with it. So I would like to contribute something to the gentoo MIPS project (if it still exists?! and/or testing packages for the AMD64 architecture but I don't know if I'm qualified for this).

Does somebody work on this project or knows something?
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[John R. Graham]

It still exists. Ping 'em on #gentoo-mips and ask 'em how you can help.
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[LoTeK]

Ok thanks, I sent a mail to the project leader...

btw, of topic question: have you installed your virtual windows machine? I have downloaded window 7 from dreamspark and it was a nightmare, because dreamspark thought I am an Apple user so I had to change my firefox-profile to get a .msi file, but then I had some other problems and someone said: you have to get an illegal windows version to get a legal one, makes sense, don't it?

Moreover I had problems with the virtualmachines itself (virtualbox, etc), then I saw that virtualbox needs qt support for the GUI and just before I turned mad I gave it up and now I'm using Monodevelop which works very good (I hope it will still work with threads- and GUI-programming) and svn (CLI) to send my programs (and not that stupid Tortoise)

But I'm still interested in the VM...
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"I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language!"