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How to port photon OS to MIPS64? #1057

Open beckhuang1226 opened 3 years ago

beckhuang1226 commented 3 years ago

I have a board with MIPS64el architecture. I want to port photon OS to it. What should I do? Is there a simple instruction manual?

dcasota commented 3 years ago

@Streamlethy From an IT historian perspective this is how an instruction manual flavor could look like.

  1. project / industry use case (future proof as porting to a new processor architecture costs tons of hours) 2. intellectual property / terms 3. deep developer skills (assembler, C, programming device drivers, system know how) 4. porting experience with photon os 5. ecosystem (partners/universities/community)

As an enthusiast I would begin simply maybe with https://www.edumips.org/

Desperate and confused I would try these: mips tools: https://www.mips.com/develop/tools/ set up a cross compiler http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/MIPS-HOWTO-9.html codescape mips sdk https://www.mips.com/develop/tools/codescape-mips-sdk/ Porting Linux to a new processor architecture: https://lwn.net/Articles/654783/

Kudos to all developers - they do make photon os possible. (edited): https://github.com/vmware/photon/commits/cross

my 2¢

-Daniel