On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:27:18PM -0700, Rafe wrote:
> Bryan,
> 
> Thanks for the info and the offer to compile stuff.  I
> think I have enough pieces to put togeather an old
> socket 7 system.  I figure I can install NetBSD for
> i386 on it.   From there it should be fairly easy to
> compile stuff for the Mobile Pro.  With a little more
> work I might be able to figure out how to compile
> stuff from my linux system (Mandrake 9.2)
> 
> Interesting what you said about mipsel (MIPS little
> endian) binaries.  I didn't realize that the
> difference was so subtle.
> 
> Thanks again for the offer.  I am going to try to put
> together my own solution, but if I get stuck I may
> take you up on the offer.

Remember that it is no problem cross-compiling the NetBSD release itself
such as the kernel but packages must be built on the architecture they
are used on. In other words, you cannot build mipsel (hpcmips) packages
on i386. Good luck.

Bryan