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[LIU Qi <liuqi82@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:07:33PM +1200, Kai-Cheung Leung wrote:
 > Hi qiliu,
 > 
 > Michael told me that the best way to port Ubuntu to Loongson would be:
 > 
 > - install Debian on a Loongson box
 > 
 > - use debootstrap to create a debian chroot environment
 > 
 > - use the Debian build system to build the Ubuntu core glibc library
 > and system packages and the Ubuntu gcc compiler
 > 
 > - Tweak the Ubuntu kernel build script (in Ubuntu kernel packages) so
 > that it recognize mipsel architecture
 > 
 > - build the ubuntu kernel packages
 > 
 > - install these packages into the chroot environment and use this
 > chroot environment to build the rest of the Ubuntu packages from
 > source
 > 
 > This is also how Michael ported Ubuntu to ARM
 > 
 > Do you have experience in this kind of bootstraping and kernel
 > compilation?  Otherwise will anyone in your team be able to help?
Yep, I will finish that as soon as possile.

Regards,
Qi