[LV] Newbie - where to start?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Fri, 2006-09-15 21:49:35 +1000, Neale Banks <neale at id.oz.au> wrote:

Good morning!

> As the custodian of a VAXstation 3100 (KA42-A V1.2) who's finally
> organised some hardware for a build/netboot environment, what's the best
> way to get started?
> 
> Looking over the website, the docs appear to be somewhat in need of a
> facelift :-(

They do. As need a lot of other things.

> Presumably, a good start would be to set up a netboot environment and
> test that?  Are there any sensibly recent kernel images available?

Usually, all vax-linux user were compiling their own. This of course
implies to have a cross-compiler.

> Once I've covered that ground, where would I go from there - setting up
> a cross-compiler etc build system?

A cross compiler would probably the first thing.  If you look at the
CVS repo, you'll find the "toolchain" project.  It contains scripts to
download all recent CVS/SVN sources from uClibc, GNU GCC and GNU
Binutils and tries to build them.

Right now, they won't compile (as it seems) due to a changed
configuration in upstream uClibc'd config file. They're enabling
threads which we don't yet support. So you need to switch that off.

The kernel sources (in GIT, can be found on kernel.org) need a
facelift, too, but I haven't seen servere things that happened in the
last months so I guess it's not all that hard. That'll probably be my
work, or anybody's elses work that I could later on pull :)

> Also, how far is it reasonable to diverge from "linux" issues here?
> e.g. poking around with machine-code a while back I noticed something
> "odd" - are such issues welcome here?

Of course!

> PS: My time is, to say the least and presumably like others here,
> somewhat limited - but hopefully I can contribute something.

Time. It's always the same problem.  Today's the day that I'll put
network cables into the walls... Some five months after I moved into
this flat...

MfG, JBG

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