From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA92525 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 11:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id LAA64515 for linux-list; Sun, 2 May 1999 11:53:53 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA14376 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 11:53:51 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ulfc@thepuffingroup.com) Received: from calypso (dialup251-1-97.swipnet.se [130.244.251.97]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id OAA06781 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 14:53:49 -0400 (EDT) mail_from (ulfc@thepuffingroup.com) Received: by calypso (Linux Smail3.2.0.101 #1) id m10e1N5-003LodC; Sun, 2 May 1999 20:53:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 20:53:47 +0200 From: Ulf Carlsson To: "Andrew R. Baker" Cc: Linux SGI Subject: Re: Indigo2 patch Message-ID: <19990502205347.A7346@thepuffingroup.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Andrew R. Baker" , Linux SGI References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Andrew R. Baker on Sun, May 02, 1999 at 11:24:54AM -0500 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > OK, since this is my first time making a patch I am not sure I got > everything quite right. This will let people with an Indigo2 actually > boot into Linux. However, they probably won't be able to do much Cool! > thereafter (I get the kernel to die while doing a 'cat README' in the root > directory). Unfortunately, this won't print the console boot messages to > the screen either. To do this, I replaced the printk code in > kernel/printk.c with the printf code in arch/mips/arc/printf.c. I'm sure > there is a better way, but I haven't found it yet. These were made Yes, there's a better way. A PROM console can be implemented. I have hacked some code for this PROM console for this purpose. I can't get it to open the initial console though. I'll send it to you, maybe you have time to figure out what's wrong... > -LINKFLAGS = -static -N > +# having -N in LINKFLAGS causes my Indigo2 not to boot > +LINKFLAGS = -static This is a problem with the cross linker and not with the kernel itself, it's the same for Indy's. The code in the CVS tree should remain as it is. - Ulf