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From: Toby Sargeant <toby@angst.forefront.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Yaroze with Linux
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 16:07:49 +1000
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Charles Henrich wrote:
> 
> Developer Support wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know anyone who is successfully using the Yaroze
> > with Linux? If so, please reply to this
> >
> > Lewis
> 
> Let me know if you find anything out, Im interested in running the
> Yaroze
> devkit under FreeBSD, an interesting note, it should be fairly trivial
> to
> build the GNU tools from within any Unixes, afterall its all GNU.
> 
> Tip happily will talk to a PSX serial connection, of course the upload
> tools arent available :( :(
> 
> (I really want the Unix versions, I dont have DOS at home :)
> 
> -Crh
> 
> --
> 
>        Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu
> 
>                          http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich

Well, I got gcc/binutils/gdb compiled and running under linux with
little
effort. There are patches at
http://www.playstation.co.uk/~byz00002/unix/
as well as some instructions regarding applying them. I don't reccomend
deviating too far from the reccomended procedure. You will need to
compile binutils as well as gcc because gcc needs the gnu as and ld when
compiling for a MIPS target. actually getting the source distributions
is going to be a little painful; it's about 16 meg all up.

All in all it's very good to get away from windows. Especially with
codewarrior, the number of problems I had even downloading the
precompiled
code to the playstation was very disconcerting. Under linux I can
reliably
transfer at 57.6k, but not 115.2k. Under windows {95|NT4} I couldn't
even get 38.4k reliably (even though I have no problems with the modem
at 57.6k).  I find this a little weird, because it shouldn't be a pc
issue. I'm using a ppro 200 and a separate serial card with a 16550a.

--
Toby Sargeant | toby@angst.forefront.com.au | [ forcefed on fear and
failure ]