Subject: Re: minimo
To: Josh Dennis <dennisjscott@yahoo.com>
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 02/28/2005 16:38:20
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:11:32 -0700, Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:39:32 -0800 (PST), Josh Dennis
> <dennisjscott@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 2005/02/23, it succeeds in the starting minimo!
> >
> > down at the bottom of the page translated via babel
> >
> > http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
> >
> > give it a try.  I ended up installing eastern langs on
> > my machine to get the gd characters to show up so
> > babel would work.  Even with characters working it
> > would not do a translate page gave error 157.
> >
> > Looks sweet he is using a 2gb cf card if I can read
> > correctly and says that after debugging and groping he
> > has firefox minimo running on his Mobile Gear II
> > (MC/R450)
> > --- John Kenyon <johnkenyonspam@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can anybody read Japanese as I think this guy has
> > > managed to build Minimo (low memory usage mozilla)
> > > for
> > > hpcmips NetBSD?
> > >
> > >
> > http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/m-ito/netbsd/hpcmips.html
> > >
> > > If anyone can translate this and build a binary that
> > > would be amazing.
> 
> This is indeed very cool. This is a prime candidate for pkgsrc too.
> 
> I'll have to see if I can figure out what he did to make it work.
> Probably above my head though.

Another thing I forgot to mention, I've tried to build firefox a few
times on my NetBSD/cobalt machine (also mipsel) and it didn't work. I
may still have the build log, not sure. I'm wondering if the work to
fix firefox is the same as minimo? Might be nice to get the patches
into pkgsrc...

Andy