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PostPosted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:39 pm    Post subject: Little-Endian Gentoo Slug (Linksys NLSU2) Reply with quote

Hi All,

Just a note for those who are trying something similiar out there ...

I've managed to get my little TurboSlug (Linksys NSLU2 @ 266Mhz) to run Gentoo in Little-Endian mode based on the recent "DebianSlug 3.10" flash image (LittleEndian Openslug intended for Debian installs) which I got from http://www.slug-firmware.net/s-dls.php.

PROCESS:

1) Flashing the debian image to the slug with upslug2 as normal. Rebooting Slug. (See http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/SlugOS/UsingTheBinary for details).
2) Login (root pwd was opeNSLUg) and prepared my USB external disk (e.g. fdisk) (no boot partition, just swap and / partition running reiserfs).
3) Started "normal" Gentoo install process following instructions from http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Linksys_NSLU2 (as primary reference) and https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-417105.html (background reference, German)

NOTES:

1) I used the arm (not armeb) little-endian stage 3 tarball (stage3-arm-uclibc-softfloat-20050811.tar.bz2) and Portage snapshot (which I lifted from http://ftp.uoi.gr/mirror/OS/gentoo/experimental/arm/embedded/stages/)
2) Managed to get distcc running (for faster compilations), offloading the compilation to my AMD64 laptop, but eventually stopped doing this as I had too many little compile errors. If you do want to try this, remember to setup your crossdev for arm-softfloat-linux-uclibc --- and NOT armeb --- but for the time being, I'm sticking to native compiles on the SLUG, but your mileage might vary.
4) Biggest problem ... coreutils upgrade didn't wanna compile so I package.masked it, and now running coreutils-5.2.1-r7

Outcome: so far so good. I've run into a few minor glitches here and there ... but nothing that an eager "Gentoo-er" can't deal with. ;-)

Code:

gap ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2203-svn (uclibc/arm, gcc-3.4.6, uclibc-0.9.28-r0, 2.6.16 armv5tel)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16 armv5tel XScale-IXP42x Family rev 1 (v5l)
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
distcc 2.18.3 arm-softfloat-linux-uclibc (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present]
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="arm"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="arm-softfloat-linux-uclibc"
CFLAGS="-march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -Os"
CHOST="arm-softfloat-linux-uclibc"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -Os"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks nodoc noinfo noman sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="<put your gentoo mirrors here>"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="arm apache2 bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli dri expat ncurses pcre perl python readline reflection session spl ssl truetype-fonts type1-fonts uclibc udev xorg zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_uclibc"
Unset:  CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY


NEXT STEPS:

1) Roll my own kernel... <efg>
2) Get raid1 working on two large external USB drives.
3) Fatten the SLUG (the 32Mb of RAM just not enough).

.... and lots more. :)
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:30 pm    Post subject: thanks! Reply with quote

thanks... been wanting to do something along these lines for a while... now i must get off my lazy ass.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've tried it, but uclibc refuses to update. I've tried it with a fresh installation according to the wiki and I've tried updating portage and gcc before, but it still fails:
Code:
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-libs/uclibc-0.9.28 to /
 * uClibc-0.9.28.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ...                                                                                          [ ok ]
 * uClibc-0.9.28.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ...                                                                                       [ ok ]
 * uClibc-0.9.28.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ...                                                                                         [ ok ]
 * uClibc-0.9.28.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ...                                                                                       [ ok ]
 * uClibc-0.9.28.tar.bz2 size ;-) ...                                                                                         [ ok ]
 * uClibc-0.9.28-patches-1.3.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ...                                                                              [ ok ]
 * uClibc-0.9.28-patches-1.3.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ...                                                                           [ ok ]
 * uClibc-0.9.28-patches-1.3.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ...                                                                             [ ok ]
 * uClibc-0.9.28-patches-1.3.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ...                                                                           [ ok ]
 * uClibc-0.9.28-patches-1.3.tar.bz2 size ;-) ...                                                                             [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                                                                          [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                                                                         [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                                                                        [ ok ]
 * checking uClibc-0.9.28.tar.bz2 ;-) ...                                                                                     [ ok ]
 * checking uClibc-0.9.28-patches-1.3.tar.bz2 ;-) ...                                                                         [ ok ]
QA Notice: USE Flag 'crosscompile_opts_headers-only' not in IUSE for sys-libs/uclibc-0.9.28

!!! ERROR: sys-libs/uclibc-0.9.28 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1562:   Called dyn_setup
  ebuild.sh, line 665:   Called pkg_setup
  uclibc-0.9.28.ebuild, line 73:   Called built_with_use 'sys-libs/uclibc' 'nls'
  eutils.eclass, line 1619:   Called die

!!! sys-libs/uclibc-0.9.27 does not actually support the nls USE flag!
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

Note: I've never ever done anything with the nls useflag or something related to it.

Anyway, I'm giving up now and will return to big-endian.
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